33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
That's right. He was talking about them. He was not talking about all Israel. Later, Paul described the distinction as being that Israel was the original grapevine, and the Gentiles were being allowed to be grafted on that grapevine, so there is one grapevine, and it is Jewish, but producing fruit by and for Christ. The church has only recently come out of its theological fog and recognized Scripture's words for what they say, that the children of Israel are still the chosen people of God, and the Gentiles are lucky to be allowed in, for which all we Gentiles can thank Jesus.
And so, how is this applied to the whole of judaism then?
Because if it is, as you are indicating, then the promises God made to the Jews have been broken by God. God (though the smoking pot and torch) walked through the two halves, not Abraham AND God.
No, the correct interpretation does not make God into a capricious God, like the god of the pagans.
——>43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
Exactly. Literal Israel is done. They were given EXACTLY 490 years to repent, etc... as prophesied by Daniel. They failed. The “gospel message” was taken from them and given to the Gentiles, the church. The church is a continuation of literal Israel. They are no longer a chosen people. They have as much chance as anyone else for salvation.