Matthew 21:38
and the farmers having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
37And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will respect my son;
39and having taken him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard, and killed him;
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12And now, come, please let me counsel you, and deliver your life and the life of your son Solomon;
Matthew 2:13And on their having withdrawn, behold, a messenger of the LORD appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Having risen, take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and be there until I may speak to you, for Herod is about to seek the Child to destroy Him.”
Matthew 27:1And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put Him to death;
Luke 20:14and having seen him, the farmers reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;
Acts 4:27for gathered together of a truth against Your holy child Jesus, whom You anointed, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,
Hebrews 1:2in these last days speaks to us in [His] Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the ages;
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 →