What happened to sweet peaceful Jesus?

Mark 12:9
Jesus continues in verse 9. “What then will the
owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” These
words echo Isaiah 5:5 and tie the events in the parable directly to redemptive history. The tenant farmers
think that the distant landowner can do nothing to stop them and that they will inherit what belonged to
the son. The reality is that the landowner will return with his men, kill the wicked tenants and then rent
the land to others. Jesus has just foretold of the judgment soon to come upon Israel in A. D. 70 when the
Romans destroy Jerusalem and its temple and when the Jews are then dispersed into the four corners of
the earth. That Jesus alludes to Isaiah 5 and the “Song of the Vineyard” at both the beginning and the
end of the parable means that Jesus intends for those members of the Sanhedrin to know that he was
speaking about them and that he was clearly warning them of the consequences of their actions. The
land and the inheritance will now be given to a people who were not YHWH’s people (Israel), but who
soon will be YHWH’s people (i.e., the church, the New Israel of God).

--Kim Riddlebarger, with help from William Lane and RT France