1And 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.
2And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
3And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.
4And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.
5And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.
6He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
7But 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.
