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.
5. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
6. He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
7. But those vine-growers said to one another, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'