1 And He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
2 At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.
3 They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4 Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.