Matthew 21:45
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
46And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.
Cross References
Matthew 12:12How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it it lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to 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 →