Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 21:46
(9) But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
(9) The wicked can do nothing but what God wills.
(9) But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
(9) The wicked can do nothing but what God wills.
Verse Matthew 21:46. _THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM, THEY FEARED THE_ _MULTITUDE_] Restraining and preventing grace is an excellent blessing, particularly where it leads to repentance and salvation...
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...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
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...
MULTITUDE. crowds. TOOK HIM, &C.. were holding Him as. prophet. FOR. Greek. as; but all the texts read " _eis_ ". for....
_when they sought to lay hands on him_ The Sanhedrin aimed at two things: (1) to seize Jesus quickly, for the Passover (during which no hostile measures could be taken) was close at hand; and because...
ΕἸΣ has the more ancient evidence, ὡς the more numerous later codices in its favour. _Nisan_ 9 (_Palm Sunday_) 46. ΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ ΚΡΑΤΗ͂ΣΑΙ. The Sanhedrin aimed at two things: (1) to seize Jesus q...
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...
VER 45. AND WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES HAD HEARD HIS PARABLES, THEY PERCEIVED THAT HE SPAKE OF THEM. 46. BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM, THEY FEARED THE MULTITUDE, BECAUSE THEY TOO...
_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...
ΖΗΤΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) пытаться (с _inf._). Уступит, _part._: "хотя". ΚΡΑΤΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΚΡΑΤΈΩ (G2902) схватить, арестовать, ΈΦΟΒΉΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.), см...
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 they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM - which Luke (Luke 20:19) says they did "the same...
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 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...
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...
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...
WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS. — We must remember that they had once before made a like attempt, and had been baffled (John 7:44). Now circumstances were even more against them. The Prophet was surrou...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_Application_. ὅταν οὖν ἔλθῃ ὁ κ., etc.: what would you expect the owner to do after such ongoings have been reported to him? Observe the subjunctive after ὅταν compared with the indicative ἤγγισεν af...
_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...
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...
REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over this view of thy Redeemer! Did the Prophet, ages before Christ was born, call upon Zion to rejoice greatly, and Jerusalem to shout aloud, because her king was coming t...
"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 THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM,.... Not that they attempted by any outward action to apprehend him, and carry him off, or by any immediate act of violence to take away his life; but they sec...
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. Ver. 46. _But when they sought to lay hands on him_] And so showed themselves to be the same...
_Whosoever shall fall on this stone_ Which the builders have rejected, but which God will make the head of the corner; that is, whosoever shall stumble at me and my doctrine, while I am here on earth...
SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM; for the purpose of destroying him, as the Scriptures, and as he in this parable, had foretold that they would....
BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM, THEY FEARED THE MULTITUDE, BECAUSE THEY TOOK HIM FOR A PROPHET. Their actual or assumed denseness finally had to give way to understanding, with the applicati...
The result:...
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...
Ver. 45,46. Mark hath much the same, MARK 12:12; so hath Luke, LUKE 20:19,20: but Luke adds, _They watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold...
Matthew 21:46 But G2532 sought G2212 (G5723) hands G2902 (G5658) Him G846 feared G5399 (G5675) multitudes...
‘And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the crowds, because they took him for a prophet.' But their plans to arrest Him were shelved because they recognised that the people saw Jesus as...
THE APPLICATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PARABLE (21:42-46). Jesus then makes clear the basic facts which the parable is bringing home, that the very Stone which is the keystone of the whole of God's b...
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...
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 21:45-46. They now perceived, if not before, that the parable referred to them; their determination to kill Him became fixed (see Mark 12:12; Luke 20:19). Avoiding open violence because the mu...
TOOK HIM (ειχον). Descriptive imperfect of εχω, to hold. This fear of the people was all that stayed the hands of the rabbis on this occasion. Murderous rage was in their hearts towards Jesus. Peop...
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...
KNEW THAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THEM. So they tried to arrest him, but there were too many people who still thought of Jesus as The Prophet who Moses had predicted....
_They feared the multitude, because they took Him for a prophet._ THE ADAPTATION OF THE GOSPEL TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE POOR “The multitude” were pleased with Christ and took Him for a prophet. Th...
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...
2 Samuel 12:7; Acts 2:22; Isaiah 29:1; John 7:40; John 7:41;...