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OET (OET-LV) And he_began to_be_speaking this the parable to the people:
A_man planted a_vineyard, and rented_out it to_tenant_farmers, and travelled many times.
OET (OET-RV) [ref]Then Yeshua started telling this parable to the people: “Once a man planted a vineyard and rented it out to tenant farmers before heading off on his trips.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
ἤρξατο δὲ πρὸς τὸν λαὸν λέγειν τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην
˱he˲_began and to the people /to_be/_speaking ¬the parable this
To help the people understand what the Jewish leaders were doing by rejecting him and John the Baptist, Jesus tells a brief story that provides an illustration. Alternate translation: “Jesus told the people this story to help them understand better”
Note 2 topic: writing-participants
ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν ἀμπελῶνα
/a/_man planted /a/_vineyard
Jesus uses this phrase to introduce the main character into the story. Alternate translation: “There once was a man who planted a vineyard”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς
rented_out it ˱to˲_tenant_farmers
As the rest of the story shows, the man rented the vineyard not for regular cash payments, but under an arrangement that entitled him to a share of the crop in exchange for the use of the land. If an arrangement like that would not be familiar to your readers, you could translate this in a way that explains it. Alternate translation: “allowed some grape farmers to use it in exchange for a share of the crop”
γεωργοῖς
˱to˲_tenant_farmers
While farmers is a general term for anyone who farms the ground, in this context it refers to people who tend grape vines and grow grapes. Alternate translation: “vine growers” or “grape farmers”
20:9 leased it to tenant farmers: This was a common practice in first-century Palestine, especially in Galilee, where peasants would lease the right to raise crops from wealthy landowners.
OET (OET-LV) And he_began to_be_speaking this the parable to the people:
A_man planted a_vineyard, and rented_out it to_tenant_farmers, and travelled many times.
OET (OET-RV) [ref]Then Yeshua started telling this parable to the people: “Once a man planted a vineyard and rented it out to tenant farmers before heading off on his trips.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.