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• This parable refers to the way that the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes of Jesus’ day relentlessly persecuted both Jesus and the apostles, seeking to make sure that they would retain power for themselves. Once they kill the Son of the Father, Jesus himself, the heir in the parable, their doom is sealed. The king (God) would send his army to miserably destroy those wicked men.
• We read more of the fate of those wicked people in the parable of the wedding guests, in Matthew chapter 22: