2 "At harvest time he sent a servant to the renters. He told the servant to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 But they grabbed the servant and beat him up. Then they sent him away with nothing.
4 So the man sent another servant to the renters. They hit this one on the head and treated him badly.
5 The man sent still another servant. The renters killed him. The man sent many others. The renters beat up some of them. They killed the others.
6 "The man had one person left to send. It was his son, and he loved him. He sent him last of all. He said, 'They will respect my son.'
7 "But the renters said to each other, 'This is the one who will receive all the owner's property someday. Come, let's kill him. Then everything will be ours.'
8 So they took him and killed him. They threw him out of the vineyard.