Luke 20:10

⁸ And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

⁹ Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

¹¹ So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

¹² Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.
KJV: And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
WEB: 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.
ASV: And at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
DARBY: And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman, that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent [him] away empty.
BLB: And [in] the season, he sent a servant to the farmers, so that they will give to him from the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers sent him away empty-handed, having beaten [him].

ÅB: Og da tiden kom, sendte han en tjener til vingårdsmennene, for at de skulle gi ham av vingårdens frukt; men vingårdsmennene slo ham, og lot ham gå bort med tomme hender.
OTB: Ved innhøstingstiden sendte han en tjener til leietakerne for at de skulle gi ham noe av frukten fra vingården. Men leietakerne slo ham og sendte ham tomhendt bort.
B1930: Og da tiden kom, sendte han en tjener til vingårdsmennene, forat de skulde gi ham av vingårdens frukt; men vingårdsmennene slo ham, og lot ham gå bort med tomme hender.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
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2 Chronicles 36:15–16
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
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Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
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2 Kings 17:13
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
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Matthew 21:34–36
When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
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1 Kings 22:24
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
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Judges 6:8–10
He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Jeremiah 26:2–6
“This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.
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