1. Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
2. At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.
3. But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
4. So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.
5. He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.