So he sent a third messenger, but they did the same things to him. “The tribal member who owned the vineyard was at the end of his rope.
The vineyard owner sent another messenger, but they treated him shamefully, beat him, and sent him away also.
“‘What can I do?’ he wondered. ‘I know,’ he said to himself, ‘I will send my much-loved son. They will have to respect him.’
“He then said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ ‘One hundred baskets of wheat,’ he answered. ‘Make it to be eighty,’ the overseer said back to him.