So the man sent a third servant. The farmers wounded him and threw him out.
Then the manager asked another one, ‘How much do you owe?’ He answered, ‘One thousand bushels of wheat.’ Then the manager said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eight hundred bushels.’
Then he sent another servant. They beat this servant also, and showed no respect for him, and sent him away empty-handed.
The owner of the vineyard said, ‘What will I do now? I will send my son whom I love. Maybe they will respect him.’