1 He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went to a far country.
2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the vinedressers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 But they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4 Then he sent another servant to them. They threw stones at him, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5 Still he sent another, and they killed him. And there were many others. Some they beat, and some they killed.
6 “Having yet his one well-beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will revere my son.’