Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 21:38
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us (s) seize on his inheritance.
(s) Literally, "let us hold it fast".
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us (s) seize on his inheritance.
(s) Literally, "let us hold it fast".
Verse 38. _SAID AMONG THEMSELVES_] Alluding to the _conspiracies_ which were then forming against the life of our blessed Lord, in the _councils_ of the Jewish elders and chief priests. See Matthew 27...
THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD - This is also recorded in Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9. Matthew 21:33 HEAR ANOTHER PARABLE - See the notes at...
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...
THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD (Mark 12:1 *, Luke 20:9). The chief peculiarities of Mt.'s version are (Matthew 21:39) the slaying of the heir outside the vineyard (perhaps a recollection of Jesus sufferi...
Jesus said, "Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to cultivators an...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
AMONG. Greek. _en_. App-104. SEIZE ON. hold on to, or hold fast. See note on 2 Thessalonians 2:6, "withholdeth": which should be rendered as here....
_let us seize on his inheritance_ This would be impossible in real life, but not more impossible than the thought of the Pharisees that by the death of Jesus they would gain the spiritual supremacy....
The Wicked Husbandmen Mark 12:1-11; Luke 20:9-18. No parable interprets itself more clearly than this. ISRAEL is represented by an image which the prophets had made familiar and unmistakeable the Vi...
THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19 No parable interprets itself more clearly than this. Israel is represented by an image which the prophets had made familiar and unmistakeable—the Vine...
ΣΧΩ͂ΜΕΝ ΤῊΝ ΚΛΗΡ., ‘seize on his inheritance,’ ἔχειν being used in the technical sense which the English ‘seize’ also bears: cp. ἒχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος, _Antig._ 1265. Thomas Lawrence (1568–1583) sugg...
Ver 33. "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS SPOKE OF GOD'S GOODNESS AND DESIRE TO SAVE MATTHEW 21:33-46:_ "The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the House of Israel." (Isaiah 5:7) God had entrusted His vineyard to...
ΔΕΎΤΕ (G1205) приходить, подходить, ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act., см._ Matthew 21:35. Совещат. _conj._: "давайте убьем" ΣΧΏΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192). Побудительный _conj._: "давайте возьм...
WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON— It would hence seem, that the Jews knew Jesus to be the Son of God. Yet Peter says both of the rulers and the people, that they crucified the Lord ignorantly, Acts 3:1...
SECTION 57 JESUS MEETS CHALLENGES TO HIS AUTHORITY: THREE PARABLES OF WARNING TEXT: 21:33-46 C. THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN 33 Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder,...
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. BUT WHEN THE FARMERS SAW THE SON, THEY SAID AMONG THE...
31 See Luk_7:29-30. 32 See Mat_3:1; Luk_3:12. 32 The Lord now proceeds to show them His authority and to expose their abuse of the privileges entrusted to them. They were mere tenants of God's viney...
THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN (Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9). The doctrinal importance of this parable, which belongs to the oldest tradition, is great. In it Christ claims to be in a unique sense the Son of God. He...
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...
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...
THIS IS THE HEIR. — What we learn elsewhere enables us to understand the feelings with which the priests and scribes must have heard these words. Already had Caiaphas given the counsel that one man sh...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
ἰδόντες : neither have they; they recognise at once the son and heir, and resolve forthwith on desperate courses, which are at once carried out. They eject the son, kill him, and seize the inheritance...
_Parable of the rebellious vine-dressers_ (Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19)....
REJECTERS THEMSELVES REJECTED Matthew 21:33-46 This parable is based on Isaiah 5:1-7. The husbandmen are the religious leaders of the people. The vineyard is of course the Hebrew nation. The servants...
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...
Heir. From this text, it appears that the princes of the Jews knew Jesus to be the Messias, and that it was only through envy and malice they were so blinded as not to acknowledge him for the Son of G...
THE WICKED HUSBANDMAN Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19. Matthew: “Hear another parable: A man who is a landlord planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge round it, and dug a wine-trough in it...
"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...
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 WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON,.... Whom many of them knew, though some did not: some were entirely ignorant of him; some knew him, but durst not confess him, yet were not injurious to him; other...
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. Ver. 38. _This is the heir; come, &c._] So that these hu...
_And when the time of fruit drew near_ And a return was to be made to the proprietor from the profits of the vineyard, which was only let out to these husbandmen, that they might render to him duly th...
BUT WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON, THEY SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, THIS IS THE HEIR; COME, LET US KILL HIM, AND LET US SEIZE ON HIS INHERITANCE....
v. 37. BUT LAST OF ALL HE SENT UNTO THEM. HIS SON, SAYING, THEY WILL RELEVANCE MY SON....
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...
33-46 This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; and what is spoken to convict them, is spoken to caution all that enjoy the privileges of the outward church. As men treat...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:39"....
Matthew 21:38 But G1161 vinedressers G1092 saw G1492 (G5631) son G5207 said G2036 (G5627) among G1722 themselves
“But the vineyard workers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.' ” The reaction of the husbandmen is then given. ‘Said amon...
THE QUESTION OF JESUS' AUTHORITY (21:37-22:46). While, as we have seen above, the section from Matthew 19:3 to Matthew 22:46 forms a complete section in itself, enclosed within a dissertation on true...
THE PARABLE OF THE FAITHLESS TENANTS (21:33-41). . The final build up of Jesus, and of what He has come to do, continues. He has entered Jerusalem as its King (Matthew 21:1). He has taken over the Tem...
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...
Matthew 21:38. THIS IS THE HEIR. ‘Heir' in virtue of His human nature, Hebrews 1:1-2. KEEP HIS INHERITANCE. Not ‘seize.' An expression of folly (in addition to the wicked resolve), as though the deat...
TAKE HIS INHERITANCE (σχωμεν την κληρονομιαν αυτου). Ingressive aorist active subjunctive (hortatory, volitive) of εχω. Let us get his inheritance....
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...
LET US KILL HIM. They made plans to kill him (John 11:53). If they could kill the son, they thought the vineyard would be theirs to keep....
_There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard._ THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN I. A representation of the jewish church as regards its privileges and obligations. “There was a certain householde...
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
JESUS TELLS THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED TENANTS MATTHEW 21:33-46; MARK 12:1-12; LUKE 20:9-19; MATTHEW 21:33 Hear another parable: T
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:33. A VINEYARD.—Was regarded as the most valuable plantation, which yielded the largest harvest, but required also the most constant labour and care (_Schaff_). A WINEPRESS...
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...
Acts 4:27; Acts 4:28; Acts 5:24; Genesis 37:18; John 11:47;...