“And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.”
Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: a man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey — the vineyard parable draws directly from Isaiah 5:1–7, the song of the vineyard in which God's vineyard is Israel. The specific elements — wall, winepress, watchtower — appear in Isaiah 5:2, and every listener would have recognized the allusion. The vineyard is God's investment in Israel; the farmers are the leaders of Israel entrusted with its care; the owner who goes away on a journey is God whose patience has been long but is not infinite.
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