Matthew 21: 33 - 42

Parables speak of the truths of God. Some understand parables to hold only great teachings of morality and spiritual enlightenment. But, Jesus, spoke of all those who came before Him too as prophets and leaders, and though he used parables in many ways besides to illustrate a truth of spiritual or moral significance, this particular parable was to express the fact that these prophets and or leaders were mentioned in a parable so that God could illustrate Jesus’ Lordship over all those who came before Him.

All those who were born of a virgin were significant in their coming and in beholding the truths that they held & shared; but in this parable we learn what Jesus’ position holds for all eternity.

God sent them as a shadow of who it is that God will, eventually, send; and also revealed Jesus, to be His true, and Only Begotten Son.

Being aware of these Sons of God who came before Him, it was only natural for Jesus to refer to them in a parable, so that He would not confuse His followers between the One and Only as opposed to those who already had come, and were not the Christ who all had been waiting for.

If you research their lives; nowhere in their lives are they admonished as God's Only Begotten, but they were only revered as His Children/Sons by the virgin woman who gave birth to them.

Matthew 21: 33 - 42

33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?