1. And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
2. And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3. But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4. And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult.
5. And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.
6. Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.
7. But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.
8. And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.
9. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
10. Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: