Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.
Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'
but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.