This parable is compared to pouring salt on a wound. Jesus gives a more accurate picture of what he means, in case people don't fully understand it. This parable continues to irritate the priests and encourages others who were willing to hear Jesus fully explain the consequences of the Jewish people's disobedience throughout the centuries. At that time the vineyard was biblical Judaism that God planted through his word and rented to the sacred Jewish leaders to maintain. The prophets were actually the servants sent by God whom the leaders of Israel killed and dishonored. The tenants killed God's only son, Jesus. They were operating under the false assumption that killing Jesus would help them receive their