There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Again the owner sent other servants, more than the first and they did the same to them. Finally, he sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son!’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to eachother, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance!’ So indeed they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him...