1. He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went to a far country.
2. At harvest time he sent a servant to the vinedressers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
3. But they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Then he sent another servant to them. They threw stones at him, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.