Matthew 21:37
Later, knowing this, the landowner sent his son to the renters to get his share of the grapes. When he sent him, he said to himself, ‘They will certainly respect my son and give him some of the grapes.’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 5:4What more could I have done for you than what I have already done? I expected you to be doing good deeds [MET], so it is disgusting that [RHQ] you were doing only evil things like the vineyard that produced only sour grapes!
Zephaniah 3:7So I thought to myself, ‘ Because of what I have done to those other nations, surely the people of Jerusalem will revere me now, and they will accept ◄my correcting them/my telling them to quit doing what is wrong►. If they do that, I will not destroy their houses; I will not punish them like I said that I would do.’ But in spite of knowing how I punished those other nations, they were still eager to get up early each morning and continue to do evil things.
Mark 12:6The man still had one other person with him. It was his son. He loved him very much. So, finally he sent his son to them because he thought that they would respect him and give him some of the grapes.
John 1:18No one has ever seen God. But God’s only Son, Jesus, who has always had a very close relationship with God, has told us about God.
John 3:16God loved us people [MTY] in the world so much that he gave his only Son as a sacrifice for us, in order that everyone who believes in him would not be separated from God forever. Instead, they would have eternal life.
Hebrews 1:1Long ago God communicated frequently to our ancestors in various ways by what the prophets said and wrote.
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 →