When Jesus tells a parable it is for the purpose of teaching some kind of lesson. With the Pharisees there seems to be lessons aimed specifically at them that in regular language they would ignore.
In the Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-19), Jesus compares God to a man who planted a vineyard. The vineyard was leased while the vineyard owner went to another country for while. The vineyard owner sent servants to get some fruit. He sent three different servants and each was beaten or wounded and sent away empty handed. This was the way to explain how God has sent prophets to deliver a message that not only was rejected, but the messengers Jeremiah, John the Baptist, as well as others were stoned, harmed or killed (Got Questions- Parable of the Tenants).
Finally, the vineyard owner (God) sends His son (Jesus), who the tenants saw as a threat. They though of the son was being sent then the owner must be dead and the son, if killed, would no longer be heir to the vineyard and the tenants could keep the vineyard.
The tenants in the parable are to be the religious leaders and various people who rejected every messenger of God. Jesus references Psalm 118:22 when he said, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone" when he closes out the teaching of the parable. Jesus is the cornerstone of our faith. Without Jesus's life, miracles, death and resurrection, and his fulfilling of the prophecies, following Christ would be flawed.
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