4. Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.
5. He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed.
6. He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’
7. But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8. So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
9. What [then] will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others.
10. Have you not read this scripture passage:‘The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone;