^{1 Ref} And 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.

^{2 Ref} And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

^{3 Ref} And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.

⁴ And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.

^{5 Ref} And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.

^{6 Ref} He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.

^{7 Ref} But 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.

^{8 Ref} And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

^{9 Ref} What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

^{10 Ref} Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

^{11 Ref} This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

^{12 Ref} And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.