⁷ “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’

“‘A thousand bushels^[a] of wheat,’ he replied.

“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’

¹² He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.

The Parable of the Tenants^(A)

⁹ He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard,^(B) rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.^(C)