Matthew 21:45

After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking;

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In The King James Version

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

In Context

44Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.”

46yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:12How much more precious a person is than a sheep! Therefore it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath.”

Luke 20:19After this the teachers of the Law and the chief priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

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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