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.
5. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.
6. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘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.’