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.
9 "What will the owner of the vineyard do then? He will come and kill those renters. He will give the vineyard to others.
10 "Haven't you read what Scripture says, " 'The stone the builders didn't accept has become the most important stone of all.