1
And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.
2
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3
Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.
4
And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.
5
And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.
6
Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.
7
But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.
8
And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.