Matthew 21:46
And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.
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In Context
45And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke about them.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:7He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise.
Isaiah 29:1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add ye year to year. Let the feasts come round.
Matthew 21:26But if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.
Luke 7:39But when the Pharisee who invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind the woman is who touches him, that she is sinful.
John 7:40Many from the multitude therefore, when they heard the saying, said, This is truly the prophet.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46
The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 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 went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →