Study Desk

^(a)And He began to speak to them in parables: "^(b)A man ^(c) planted a vineyard and put a ^[a] wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower , and rented it out to ^[b]vine-growers and went on a journey.

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.'

But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

What will the ^[c]owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.