Matthew 21:37
So then he sent his son. ‘They will respect my son,’ he told himself.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
In Context
36So he sent more servants, but the farmers did the same things to them.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:4What more could I have done for my vineyard than I've already done? When I looked for sweet grapes, why did it only produce sour ones?
Zephaniah 3:7I told myself, “Surely they will respect me now and accept my correction. Then their homes would not be destroyed to teach them a lesson.” But instead you're just as eager to go on doing evil.
Mark 12:6In the end the only one left was his son whom he loved, and eventually he sent him, thinking ‘They will respect my son.’
John 1:18While no one has ever seen God, God the one and only, who is close beside the Father, has shown us what God is like.
John 3:16For God loved the world, and this is how: he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who trusts in him shouldn't die, but have eternal life.
Hebrews 1:1God, who in the past spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at various times and in many ways,
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 →