'Servants' in the Bible

The servants of the owner came to him and said, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have weeds in it?’

He replied to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants asked him, ‘Then do you want us to go and pull them out?’

When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.

But the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Again he sent other servants, more than the first time; and they treated them the same way.

And he sent his servants to call those who had [previously] been invited to the wedding feast, but they refused to come.

Then he sent out some other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened calves are butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

The rest [of the invited guests] seized his servants and mistreated them [insulting and humiliating them] and killed them.

Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding [feast] is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

Those servants went out into the streets and gathered together all the people they could find, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests [sitting at the banquet table].

“For it is just like a man who was about to take a journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his possessions.

“Now after a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.