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.
5. Still he sent another, and they killed him. And there were many others. Some they beat, and some they killed.