Verse 33
Hear another parable: There was a man that was an householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedges about it, and digged a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country, ...
THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED FARMERS
The following analogies are discernible in this parable:The householder is God.
The vineyard represents the privilege of the Jewish nation.
The planting of the vineyard refers to God's establishment of Israel as a favored nation.
The hedge, winepress, tower, etc. represent the Law of Moses.
The husbandmen represent the religious leaders.
The servants who came to receive the fruits are the prophets whom God sent to Israel.
The maltreatment of the servants shows Israel's maltreatment of the prophets of God.
The husbandman's desiring the fruits shows God's earnest desire for true religion in Israel, especially God's desire for a consciousness in Israel of their NEED of redemption.
The son in the parable stands for God's Son, Jesus Christ.
The killing of the son is the crucifixion of Christ.
The son's being sent last of all shows that Christ is God's last word to man.
Their casting the son out of the vineyard prefigures the suffering of Christ without the camp.
The taking of the vineyard away from the wicked husbandmen and giving it to others represents the displacement of Israel by the Gentiles in the church of Christ.
The householder's going into another country represents God's leaving Israel to their own devices for a long period prior to the coming of Christ.
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