Luke 19:12
So He said: “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.
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Matthew 25:14“Because the kingdom is also like a man about to go on a long journey, who called his own servants and entrusted his possessions to them.
Mark 12:1Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard—put a hedge around it, dug a wine trough, built a tower—rented it to farmers and went on a journey.
Mark 16:19So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at God's right.
Luke 20:9Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to farmers, and went away on a long journey.
John 18:37So Pilate said to Him, “You are a king then?” Jesus answered: “As you say, I am a king; for this I was born. And for this I came into the world, to testify to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears my voice.”
Acts 17:31because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Matthew Henry on Luke 19:12-28
The Nobleman and His Servants. 11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this… Read the whole commentary →