Matthew 21:45

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

In Context

44And he that falls upon this stone shall be dashed to pieces; but him on whom it shall fall, it will make like chaff for the wind.

46And when they sought to lay hold of him, they feared the multitude, because they regarded him as a prophet.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:12How much better, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him, the same hour; (and yet they feared the people;) for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

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 →

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