1. And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard and set a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went far away.
2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a slave that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3. And taking him, they beat him and sent him away empty.
4. And again he sent unto them another slave, and casting stones at him, they wounded him in the head and sent him away shamefully handled.