But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard-for true religion is a practical thing, a "bringing forth fruit unto God."
Verse Matthew 21:28. _A_ CERTAIN _MAN HAD TWO SONS_] Under the emblem of these two sons, one of whom was a _libertine, disobedient_, and _insolent_, but who afterwards thought on his ways, and return...
BUT WHAT THINK YE? - A way of speaking designed to direct them particularly to what he was saying, that they might be self-convicted. TWO SONS - By those two sons our Lord intends to represent the co...
9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...
MATTHEW 21:28 TO MATTHEW 22:14. A trilogy of parables, perhaps from Q, enforcing the implicit teaching of the fig-tree incident. MATTHEW 21:28. THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS. Mt. only. With...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
Jesus said: "What do you think? A man had two children, He went to the first and said, 'Child, go and work in my vineyard today.' He answered, 'I will not.' But afterwards he changed his mind and went...
A CERTAIN MAN, &C. Here follow three parables spoken in the Temple. SONS. children. Greek. _teknon._ GO WORK TO DAY. Go to-day, work....
_two sons_ representing the sinners who first refused to do God's will, but repented at the preaching of John; and the Pharisees who, having "the righteousness which is of the law" (Philippians 3:9),...
The Parable of the Two Sons, and the Explanation of it Peculiar to St Matthew St Luke omits the parable, perhaps as referring especially to Israel. The parable follows in close connection with the qu...
ΤΈΚΝΑ ΔΎΟ, representing the sinners who first refused to do God’s will, but repented at the preaching of John; and the Pharisees who, having ‘the righteousness which is of the law’ (Philippians 3:9),...
The _textus receptus_ is here upheld. For a discussion of the _var. lect_. see Hammond, _Text. Crit._ 109....
THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS, AND THE EXPLANATION OF IT Peculiar to St Matthew. St Luke omits the parable, perhaps as referring especially to Israel. The parable follows in close connection with the qu...
Ver 28. "But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and wen...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT AUTHORITY AND REPENTANCE MATTHEW 21:23-32:_ The chief priest and elders confronted Jesus with questions about His authority. "By what authority are you doi...
ΤΊ ΎΜ ΔΟΚΕΊ что вам кажется? что вы думаете? (_см._ Matthew 17:25). ΕΙΧΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Matthew 21:23. ΎΠΑΓΕ _praes. imper. ac...
DISCOURSE: 1387 THE TWO SONS Matthew 21:28. But what think ye? A certain man had two sons: and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not; but...
BUT WHAT THINK YE? A CERTAIN MAN, &C.— Because the chief priests and elders had said that they did not know whence John's baptism was, Jesus sharply rebuked them for disbelieving him: he conveyed his...
SECTION 57: JESUS MEETS CHALLENGES TO HIS AUTHORITY: THREE PARABLES OF WARNING (Parallels: Mark 11:27 to Mark 12:1; Luke 20:1-8) TEXT: 21:23-32 A. JESUS-' AUTHORITY CHALLENGED 23 And when he was c...
12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nisan 8...
PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS (peculiar to St. Matthew). The 'certain man' is God, and He is represented as a father, to set forth His impartial love to all mankind, righteous and sinful alike. The son who...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
BUT WHAT THINK YE? — The question serves to connect the parable with the foregoing incident, and so gives point to its special primary application. In many MSS. the answers of the two sons are inverte...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
τῷ ἀμπελῶνι : constant need of work in a vineyard, and of superintendence of workers....
_Parable of the two sons_, in Mt. only, introduced by the familiar formula, τί δὲ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ (Matthew 17:25; Matthew 18:12), and having for its aim to contrast the conduct of the Pharisees towards the...
AUTHORITY WHICH SILENCED AND CONDEMNED Matthew 21:23-32 Our Lord always refused to gratify idle curiosity. When an earnest seeker for truth, like Nicodemus, approached Him to know the way of life, He...
In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...
A certain man had two sons, &c. The ancient interpreters, by the first son generally understand the Gentiles, as also publicans and scandalous sinners; and by the second, the Jewish people. The Gentil...
THE TWO SONS Matthew 21:28-32. “But what seems to you? A man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said, Child, go today, labor in my vineyard. And responding, he said, I do not wish; and afterwar...
"And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this auth...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_THE MASTER’S CALL_ ‘Go work to-day in my vineyard.’ Matthew 21:28 We recognise the claims of Christ; we know the needs of the world; what now shall be our answer to the Master’s call? Whatever res...
_THE TWO SONS_ ‘A certain man had two sons.… Whether of them twain did the will of his Father?’ Matthew 21:28 The originals of these two pictures are before us every day. An utterly godless man, wh...
This conclusion shows what is the object of the parable, when Christ prefers to the scribes and priests those who were generally accounted infamous and held in detestation; for he unmasks those hypocr...
Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
BUT WHAT THINK YOU?.... Matthew 18:12 A CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO SONS. This is a parable; the design of which is to show the hypocrisy and deceit of the Scribes and Pharisees, in pretending to works of ri...
But what think ye? A _certain_ man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. Ver. 28. _But what think you?_] Christ reporteth himself to their own conscien...
_But what think ye_ As if he had said, You have evaded a direct answer to my question concerning the baptism of John, and have acknowledged your ignorance whence it was; but what think you of your own...
THINK YE; judge ye of what I am going to say in the following parable. THE FIRST; this represented the openly immoral and vicious, who publicly refused to obey God, such as publicans and harlots. GO...
THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS. v. 28. BUT WHAT THINK YE? A CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO SONS; AND HE CAME TO THE FIRST AND SAID, SON, GO WORK TODAY IN MY VINEYARD....
It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...
28-32 Parables which give reproof, speak plainly to the offenders, and judge them out of their own mouths. The parable of the two sons sent to work in the vineyard, is to show that those who knew not...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:32"....
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V For ye are those that were once sent into the vineyard, and did not obey, but these they that did obey;[139]...
Matthew 21:28 But G1161 what G5101 you G5213 think G1380 (G5719) man G444 had G2192 (G5707) two...
“But what do you think? A man had two sons.” We note here that once again we are faced with the challenge of the two ways (compare Matthew 7:13 ff). For this father has two sons who must choose which...
“And he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard'. And he answered and said, ‘I will not', but afterward he changed his mind, and went.” The first son is called to work in his...
JESUS EXPOSES THE HYPOCRISY OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS BY THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS (21:28-32). Jesus now follows up His challenge concerning the source of John's authority, in order to face the relig...
Matthew 21:28. BUT WHAT THINK YE. Peculiar to Matthew. This parable assumes the concealment and falsity of their real opinion. Spoken in love, as an invitation and warning, it led to greater enmity....
TIME. _Tuesday_, in the temple, after the discourse about the fig tree. The events recorded in chaps, 22, 23, took place on the same day; the discourse in chaps, 24, 26, was delivered in the evening a...
VINEYARD See "vineyard," margin reference, (Matthew 20:1). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 20:1). _...
Matthew 21:28 I. There are two spheres of human duty, the individual and the social. Individually, it is our duty to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling;" to listen to the voice of God...
Matthew 21:28 The Two Sons. In this parable there are two distinct warnings to two distinct classes, with corresponding encouragements attached, as shadows follow solid bodies in the sunlight; to th...
Matthew 21:28 Promising without Doing. We promise to serve God; we do not perform; and that not from deliberate faithlessness in the particular case, but because it is our nature, our way not to obe...
Matthew 21:28 We must not lose sight of the fact that in this parable both the persons who were addressed were _sons._And this is exactly our position. In a sense in a high and true sense we are all...
Matthew 21:23. _And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto, him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gav...
CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossiti...
28-31. NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK? He calls their attention to something which they will be required to answer. THERE WAS A MAN. The two sons stand for the Jewish leaders and the Jewish people. Both group...
_A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day._ CHRISTIAN SONSHIP AND SERVICE I. Christian sonship furnishes the best possible motives for Christian service....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:28 The parable of the TWO SONS demonstrates the religious leaders’ failure to respond rightly to John the Baptist’s prophetic ministry. A person’s actions ultimately prove w...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:23. THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS.—St. Mark and St. Luke add “the scribes,” thus including representatives of the three constituent elements of the Sanhedrin (_Plumptre_...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Luke 13:4; Luke 15:11;...
The design and scope of this parable is to show, That PUBLICANS AND HARLOTS, that is, the vilest, the profanes, and worst of sinners, who, upon the hearing of Christ's doctrine and miracles, did repen...