What does Matthew 21:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you,That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you."
MATTHEW 21:29-31 ouv qe,lw( u[steron de. metamelhqei.j avph/lqen … e`te,rw| … evgw,( ku,rie\ kai. ouvk avph/lqen … o` prw/toj {C} The textual transmission of the parable of the two sons is very much...
Verse 31. _THE PUBLICANS AND THE HARLOTS_] In all their former conduct they had said NO. Now they yield to the voice of truth when they hear it, and enter into the kingdom, embracing the salvation bro...
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 Matthew 21:...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
WHETHER OF THEM TWAIN. Which of the two. THE WILL. the desire. Greek. _thelema_ (the Noun of App-102). PUBLICANS. tax-gatherers. GO INTO... BEFORE. go before you into. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See App-...
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...
The _textus receptus_ is here upheld. For a discussion of the _var. lect_. see Hammond, _Text. Crit._ 109....
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...
ΈΚ (G1537) от, используется как партитивный _gen._ (BD, 90). ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 21:6. ΤΕΛΏΝΑΙ _nom. pl._ от ΤΕΛΏΝΗΣ (G5057) сборщик податей. Об отношении к представителям этой пр...
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; b...
THEY SAY UNTO HIM, THE FIRST— It seems that the Pharisees did not perceive that by this answer they condemned themselves, till Jesus made a direct application of the parable in that sharp, but just re...
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...
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you....
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...
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 of...
THEY SAY UNTO HIM, THE FIRST. — The answer came apparently from the lips of the very persons who were self-condemned by it, and so implied something like an unconsciousness that they were described in...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 - Matthew 23:1 IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to His Temple; Malachi 3:1 but He w...
_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, H...
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...
Whether of them twain did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots (p) go into the kingdom of God before...
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 afterwa...
"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 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...
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...
WHETHER OF THEM TWAIN DID THE WILL OF HIS FATHER?.... This is the question put by Christ, upon the preceding parable to the chief priests, elders, and Scribes; THEY SAY UNTO HIM, THE FIRST: an answer...
Whether of them twain did the will of _his_ father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you...
_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...
Openly wicked men are sometimes brought to repentance and salvation sooner than those who have been externally moral and professed a high regard for sacred things. Thus, those who appeared for a time...
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"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV ], together with all her house, through faith of the scarlet sign; as the Lord also declared to those who did not receive His advent,-the Pharisees, no doubt, nullif...
Matthew 21:31 Which G5101 of G1537 two G1417 did G4160 (G5656) will G2307 father G3962 said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 first G4413 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) them G846 Assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719)...
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 reli...
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...
GO BEFORE YOU (προαγουσιν). "In front of you" (Weymouth). The publicans and harlots march ahead of the ecclesiastics into the kingdom of heaven. It is a powerful indictment of the complacency of th...
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 grou...
_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 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), actions in the temple (Matthew 21:12)...
_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.) MATTHEW 21:1 We have come to the last week of our Lord's earthly life, when he made his appearance in...
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 Timothy 1:13; 2 Peter 3:9; 2 Samuel 12:5; Acts 17:30; Ezekiel 33:11; Job 15:6; Luke 15:1; Luke 15:10; Luke 15:2; Luke 19:10;...