1. And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
2. And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3. But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4. And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult.
5. And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.