7. So they answered, ‘We don’t know where it was from.’
8. Jesus said, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.’
9. He went on to tell the people this parable: ‘A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.
10. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
11. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.
12. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
13. ‘Then the owner of the vineyard said, “What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.”