1. The Tragedy Of Murdering God’s Own Son

2. Mark 12:1-12 And he began to speak to them in parables
Mark 12: And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

3. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

4. “‘The stone that the builders rejected
And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this Scripture:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

5. And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

6. Isaiah 5:1-2 My beloved had a vineyard
Mark 12:1
Isaiah 5: My beloved had a vineyard
A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower.
on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it

7. and leased it to tenants and went into another country
and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

8. Isaiah 5:2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

9. Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry!
mishpat
mishpach
tsedakah
tseakah

10. he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

11. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed.

12. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.

13. Matthew 23:29-32 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites
Matthew 23: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

14. Hebrews 11: Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—  of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

15. Matthew 23: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

16. He had still one other, a beloved son
He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

17. The son goes as the father’s representative, with the father’s authority, to the father’s property, to claim the father’s due.
- James Edwards

18. But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir
But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

19. What will the owner of the vineyard do?

20. Matthew 21: They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

21. Let the parable before us be always reckoned among the standing proofs of the desperate evil in men’s hearts. They saw Jesus holy, harmless, undefiled, going about doing good. Yet they would not have Him, rebelled against Him, and at last killed Him. Let us dismiss from our minds the idea that there is any innate goodness or natural rectitude, in our hearts.
- J.C. Ryle

22. Have you not read this Scripture:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

23. They were never drafted!
Warren Moon
Kurt Warner
Tony Romo
They were never drafted!

24. "Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance). Indeed, 'only the man who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross', wrote Canon Peter Green, 'may claim his share in its grace.'”
- John Stott