The Parable of the Tenants

The parable of the tenents is a microcosm of the larger narrative, tension between jesus and the religious leaders. Matthew isn't just a fulfilment of the smoking gun prophecies of zechariah, like i he's going to ride on a donkey. The sermon on the mount opens with the statements of the values of the kingdom. And then you've got an even biger expression of that story, that is zechar a's prophecy that he recites from god,. It represents a summary of god's entire case against what his people have gotten wrong along the way.