2 “At the right time he sent a servant to the workers to collect from them a share of the grapes from the vineyard.
3 The workers took the servant, beat him, and sent him back with nothing.
4 So the man sent another servant to them. They hit the servant on the head and treated him shamefully.
5 The man sent another, and they killed that servant. Then he sent many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.
6 “He had one more person to send. That person was his son, whom he loved. Finally, he sent his son to them. He thought, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 “But those workers said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8 So they took him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.