What is peculiar with the Gospel of Matthew is that it has many parables. Today, we hear again another beautiful parable, the Parable of the great Banquet. In sacred scripture banquets signify God's blessings which he wants to bestow not only to the people of Israel but to all the nations. And God wants that his banquet hall will be filled with a lot of people. He wants the Kingdom of heaven be filled with a lot of people because his gift of salvation is universal. It is for all people.

Today we hear another parable which is the Parable of the fruitless vineyard. The first reading tells us about the people of Israel who are compared to God’s vineyard whom he cared for; yet they failed to produce good fruit. The same scenario has taken placed in the Gospel: the landowner is God; the vineyard is the people of Israel.