THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD. The vineyard: AND HE BEGAN TO SPEAK UNTO THEM BY PARABLES. A CERTAIN MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD, AND SET AN HEDGE ABOUT IT, AND DIGGED A PLACE FOR THE WINE FAT, AND BUILT A TOWER, AND LET IT OUT TO HUSBANDMEN, AND WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY. For some time now Jesus had not use... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AT THE SEASON HE SENT TO THE HUSBANDMEN A SERVANT THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE FROM THE HUSBANDMEN OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wicked husbandmen:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAUGHT HIM, AND BEAT HIM, AND SENT HIM AWAY EMPTY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SENT UNTO THEM ANOTHER SERVANT; AND AT HIM THEY CAST STONES, AND WOUNDED HIM IN THE HEAD, AND SENT HIM AWAY SHAMEFULLY HANDLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SENT ANOTHER; AND HIM THEY KILLED, AND MANY OTHERS; BEATING SOME AND KILLING SOME.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING YET THEREFORE ONE SON, HIS WELL-BELOVED, HE SENT HIM ALSO LAST UNTO THEM, SAYING, THEY WILL RELEVANCE MY SON.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOSE HUSBANDMEN SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, THIS IS THE HEIR; COME, LET US KILL HIM, AND THE INHERITANCE SHALL BE OURS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TOOK HIM, AND KILLED HIM, AND CAST HIM OUT OF THE VINEYARD. At the season, at the appointed time, when the first fruits were about to be expected, the owner sent a servant as his representative. The amount agreed upon was to be collected, either in the form of fruit, or of a specified sum o... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE VINEYARD DO? HE WILL COME AND DESTROY THE HUSBANDMEN, AND WILL GIVE THE VINEYARD UNTO OTHERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The application of the parable:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAVE YE NOT READ THIS SCRIPTURE: THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER;... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HOLD ON HIM, BUT FEARED THE PEOPLE; FOR THEY KNEW THAT HE HAD SPOKEN THE PARABLE AGAINST THEM. AND THEY LEFT HIM AND WENT THEIR WAY. The vivid presentation of Christ in bringing out the cowardliness, greed, and cruelty of the wicked husbandmen must have been most impressive. A... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SEND UNTO HIM CERTAIN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE HERODIANS TO CATCH HIM IN HIS WORDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
VARIOUS QUESTIONS PROPOSED TO JESUS. The question of tribute:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME, THEY SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART TRUE AND CAREST FOR NO MAN; FOR THOU REGARDEST NOT THE PERSON OF MEN, BUT TEACHEST THE WAY OF GOD IN TRUTH: IS IT LAWFUL TO GIVE TRIBUTE TO CAESAR, OR NOT?... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL WE GIVE, OR SHALL WE NOT GIVE? BUT HE, KNOWING THEIR HYPOCRISY, SAID UNTO THEM, WHY TEMPT YE ME? BRING ME A PENNY THAT I MAY SEE IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BROUGHT IT. AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHOSE IS THIS IMAGE AND SUPERSCRIPTION? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, CAESAR'S.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, RENDER TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S, AND TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S. AND THEY MARVELED AT HIM. Having been worsted in the first encounter, the Jewish chiefs lost no time in planning a second attack. They sent to Him, without delay, some keen-mind... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN COME UNTO HIM THE SADDUCEES, WHICH SAY THERE IS NO RESURRECTION; AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The question of the Sadducees:... [ Continue Reading ]
MASTER, MOSES WROTE UNTO US, IF A MAN'S BROTHER DIE, AND LEAVE HIS WIFE BEHIND HIM, AND LEAVE NO CHILDREN, THAT HIS BROTHER SHOULD TAKE HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP SEED UNTO HIS BROTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THERE WERE SEVEN BRETHREN; AND THE FIRST TOOK A WIFE, AND DYING LEFT NO SEED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND TOOK HER AND DIED, NEITHER LEFT HE ANY SEED; AND THE THIRD LIKEWISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SEVEN HAD HER AND LEFT NO SEED. LAST OF ALL THE WOMAN DIED ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE RESURRECTION, THEREFORE, WHEN THEY SHALL RISE, WHOSE WIFE SHALL SHE BE OF THEM? FOR THE SEVEN HAD HER TO WIFE. The Herodians and the Pharisees had been obliged to retreat with little glory. Now come the Sadducees, the deniers of the resurrection of the dead. They hope to have much better succ... [ Continue Reading ]
The decisive answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, DO YE NOT THEREFORE ERR BECAUSE YE KNOW NOT THE SCRIPTURES, NEITHER THE POWER OF GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN THEY SHALL RISE FROM THE DEAD, THEY NEITHER MARRY, NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, BUT ARE AS THE ANGELS WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS TOUCHING THE DEAD, THAT THEY RISE: HAVE YE NOT READ IN THE BOOK OF MOSES HOW IN THE BUSH GOD SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND THE GOD OF ISAAC AND THE GOD OF JACOB?... [ Continue Reading ]
HE IS NOT THE GOD OF THE DEAD, BUT THE GOD OF THE LIVING; YE THEREFORE DO GREATLY ERR. The question which Jesus uses: Do ye not err on account of this fact?. is stronger than a positive statement as to their wrong belief and argument. He says, in effect: Don't you see how absolutely foolish you are... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THE SCRIBES CAME, AND HAVING HEARD THEM REASONING TOGETHER, AND PERCEIVING THAT HE HAD ANSWERED THEM WELL, ASKED HIM, WHICH IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF ALL?... [ Continue Reading ]
The foremost commandment:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIM, THE FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS IS, HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD, OUR GOD, IS ONE LORD;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD, THY GOD, WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND IS LIKE, NAMELY THIS, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. THERE IS NONE OTHER COMMANDMENT GREATER THAN THESE. It was not a mere harmless question or request for information which this scribe here uttered. He was rather one of the sharp-witted ones of the Pharisees, whose object w... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SCRIBE SAID UNTO HIM, WELL, MASTER, THOU HAST SAID THE TRUTH; FOR THERE IS ONE GOD; AND THERE IS NONE OTHER BUT HE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The Pharisee is convinced:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART, AND WITH ALL THE UNDERSTANDING, AND WITH ALL THE SOUL, AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE HIS NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF, IS MORE THAN ALL WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN JESUS SAW THAT HE ANSWERED DISCREETLY, HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU ART NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AND NO MAN AFTER THAT DURST ASK HIM ANY QUESTION. The clear-cut statement from Scriptures which Jesus gave him in answer to his tempting question made a deep impression upon the scribe. There... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID'S SON AND LORD. v. 35. AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, WHILE HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, HOW SAY THE SCRIBES THAT CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR DAVID HIMSELF SAID BY THE HOLY GHOST, THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND TILL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID THEREFORE HIMSELF CALLETH HIM LORD; AND WHENCE IS HE, THEN, HIS SON? AND THE COMMON PEOPLE HEARD HIM GLADLY. All the sects and organizations among the Jews had now had their tilt with the Lord, and in every case His word had prevailed. So thoroughly had He vanquished His enemies that no one da... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM IN HIS DOCTRINE, BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES, WHICH LOVE TO GO IN LONG CLOTHING, AND LOVE SALUTATIONS IN THE MARKETPLACES,... [ Continue Reading ]
A last warning of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHIEF SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES, AND THE UPPERMOST ROOM AT FEASTS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE LONG PRAYERS: THESE SHALL RECEIVE GREATER DAMNATION. Mark gives only a very short section of the last woe of Jesus upon the scribes and Pharisees, but a passage which exhibits very well the hollowness and the mockery of their hypocrisy. Jesus warn... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY, AND BEHELD HOW THE PEOPLE CAST MONEY INTO THE TREASURY; AND MANY THAT WERE RICH CAST IN MUCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WIDOW'S MITE. Mark 12:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE CAME A CERTAIN POOR WIDOW, AND SHE THREW IN TWO MITES, WHICH MAKE A FARTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CALLED UNTO HIM HIS DISCIPLES AND SAITH UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT THIS POOR WIDOW HATH CAST MORE IN THAN ALL THEY WHICH HAVE CAST INTO THE TREASURY;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL THEY DID CAST IN OF THEIR ABUNDANCE, BUT SHE OF HER WANT DID CAST IN ALL SHE HAD, EVEN ALL HER LIVING. The Temple treasuries, thirteen in number according to transmitted accounts, were located in the Court of the Women. Jesus, being weary of His labors of teaching and arguing all day, sat do... [ Continue Reading ]