Parable of the Tenants

I think that the parable of the tenants is a sort of subliminal message to the crowd. Jesus uses the parable to indirectly express his feelings; if he had done so directly, he would have been arrested and probably killed. The parable illustrates Jesus's dissatisfaction with violence and lack of humanity. In the parable, the landowner did not show any humanity. He took land from the farmers and planted an unnecessary crop in grapes; the tenants could not survive by planting them, as the grapes would take four years to mature. The tenants also displayed a lack of humanity in their usage of violence, beating and killing some of the boss's collectors. Jesus used this parable as a means of "saying something without saying it". This put on display the maliciousness and wickedness of the Jewish priests; they were looking for any reason they could to put Jesus away. It showed the willingness of the upper class to stifle the lower class. The parable of the tenants has a lesson in it, and also teaches us a lesson based on the situation going on outside of the parable. Jesus preached nonviolence and humanity in the parable and discreetly showed the intentions of the powerful upper class.