2 At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.
3 But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
4 Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.
5 He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed.
6 He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8 So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.