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The man had only one person that he could still send. This was his own son. The man loved him very much.[a] So, last of all, he sent his son to the farmers. He thought, “The farmers will surely respect my son.”

But those farmers said to each other, “This is the son of our master. The garden will belong to him when his father dies. We should kill the son and then the garden will be ours.” So the farmers took the son and they killed him. Then they threw his dead body out of the garden.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:6 The master's son was like Jesus.
  2. 12:8 The farmers were cruel to the man's servants because the farmers did not want to obey the man. They killed his son for the same reason. They are like people who do not want to obey God. God may give them many chances to change their minds. But if they do not obey God, he will certainly punish them in the end.