If a man is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant shall be also. If a man is ready to serve me, my Father will honor him.

The man who would be the greatest among you must be your servant.

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.

They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.'

The master answered 'Out of your own mouth I judge you, you worthless servant. You knew that I am a stern man, that I take what I have not planted, and reap what I have not sown?

The owner afterwards sent another servant; but the tenants beat and insulted this man too, and sent him away empty-handed.

In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.