Matthew 21:38
But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
37But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
39And they took him, and carried him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Cross References
Matthew 2:13When they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there till I bring you word; for Herod is about to seek for the young child, to destroy him.
Matthew 27:1When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people held a consultation against Jesus, that they might put him to death.
Luke 20:14But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
Acts 4:27For, in truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, did meet together,
Hebrews 1:2whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom, also, he made the ages;
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 →