Night Of The Living Dead

The Parable of the Tenants.                                    New Testament  Mark 12

12 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: 

“A man (God) planted a vineyard (created our world). He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers (Jews) and moved to another place.

 ² At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.  

³ But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.  

⁴ Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.  

⁵ He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed. (the prophets - John the Baptist, etc)

⁶ “He had one left to send, a son (Jesus), whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

⁷ “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’  

⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. (God turned from the Jews)

⁹ “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. (Christians - the new Chosen Ones)

 ¹⁰ Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

'‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
¹¹ the Lord has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?”

¹² Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.