Matthew 21:46
And when they sought to lay hold of him, they feared the multitude, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
45And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.
Cross References
Matthew 21:26But if we reply, From men, we fear the multitude; for all regard John as a prophet.
Luke 7:39But when the Pharisee who had invited him, saw it, he said within himself: This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who, and what sort of woman this is that touches him; for she is a sinner.
John 7:40Therefore, many of the multitude, when they had heard this word, said: This is, in truth, 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 →