1. Yeshua began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower. He leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey.
2. And at the season, he sent a servant to collect from the tenants part of the vineyard’s fruit.
3. But grabbing him, they beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.
4. And again the man sent another servant to them, and they wounded his head and treated him shamefully.
5. He sent another, and that one they killed; and so on with many others, beating some and killing some.
6. He had yet one, a well-loved son. He sent him to them last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’