1. Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
2. At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.
3. But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
4. Again he sent another slave to them, and they hit him on the head and treated him shamefully.