But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’
Matthew 21:38

This is similar to the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve in the Garden: You can become like God. It's probably also what he told himself at Golgotha: Kill the Son and you can take his place. However, the immediate subject of Yeshua's parable was the Jewish religious leadership who thought they could dictate terms to God.