Matthew 21:40

Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

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In The King James Version

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

In Context

39So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him.

41“Miserable wretches!” they exclaimed, “he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times.”

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Cross References

Luke 20:15So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

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 →

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