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And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
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And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
3
And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.
4
And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.
5
And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.
6
He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
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But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours.
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And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.