Mark 12:2-6

And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive his share of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

And again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

He had one more man to send, a beloved son; he sent him to them last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’