³ I am my beloved’s [garden] and my beloved is mine! He feeds among the lilies [which grow there].

³³ Listen to another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a wine vat in it and built a watchtower. Then he let it out [for rent] to tenants and went into another country.

³⁴ When the fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.

³⁵ But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first time, and they treated them the same way.

³⁷ Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son.

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, This is the heir; come on, let us kill him and have his inheritance.

³⁹ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰ Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?