Earlier, in the city of Philippi, we suffered and the people treated us very badly, as you also know. But God still gave us the boldness to tell you his good news, even when people strongly opposed us.
Was there ever a prophet your people didn’t attack? They even killed those who told about the coming of the Blameless One. And now you’ve handed him over to his enemies and murdered him.
At harvest time, he sent a slave to the renters to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the renters beat that slave and sent him away with nothing.