Then he proceeded to send a third, but they wounded him as well and threw him out.
Then he said to another, ‘And how much do yoʋ owe?’ The man said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ The steward said to him, ‘Take yoʋr bill and write eighty.’
So he proceeded to send another servant, but they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
So the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps when they see him they will have respect for him.’