Mark 12:3
They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
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Mark 12:2
When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
Matthew 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.
Luke 20:10
At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty.
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Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Matthew 21:39
So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.
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Matthew 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
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Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
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