1. And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
2. When the season came, he sent a servantto the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
3. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.