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.