WNT(i)
35 but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.
36 Again he sent another party of servants more numerous than the first; and these they treated in the same manner.
37 Later still he sent to them his son, saying, "'They will respect my son.'
38 "But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said to one another, "'Here is the heir: come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.'
39 "So they seized him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40 When then the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-dressers?"
41 "He will put the wretches to a wretched death," was the reply, "and will entrust the vineyard to other vine-dressers who will render the produce to him at the vintage season."