1. And He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
2. At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.
3. They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.
5. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
6. He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'