'Slaves' in the Bible

The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves *said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’

“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened.

When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.

The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.

Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.

and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;

“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

“Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them.