Matthew 21:46
And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:7He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.
Isaiah 29:1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to year: the solemnities are at an end.
Matthew 21:26If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the multitude: for all held John as a prophet.
Luke 7:39And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.
John 7:40Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.
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 →