1. And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
2. And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.
3. And they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
4. And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.
5. And he sent another, and that one they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they beat and some of whom they killed.