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.’
7 “But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8 So they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.