Matthew 21:45
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his illustrations, they realized he was speaking about them.
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44Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken, but it will completely crush anyone it falls upon.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:12“Don't you think a human being is worth much more than a sheep? So yes, you are allowed to do good on the Sabbath.”
Luke 20:19Immediately the religious teachers and the chief priests wanted to arrest him because they realized that the story Jesus told was aimed at them, but they were afraid of what the people would do.
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 →