Matthew 21:32-36

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even have second thoughts afterward so as to believe him. Parable of the Landowner

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And when the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his fruit.

And the vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they did the same things to them.