Matthew 21:38
But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take the inheritance.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
37last, he sent to them his son, saying, Now will they be ashamed from my son.
39And they seized and cast him without the vinery, and killed him.
Cross References
Matthew 2:13AND when they were gone, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream unto Jauseph, and said to him, Arise, take the child and his mother, and flee into Metsreen, and there be until I tell thee; for it will be that Herodes will seek the child, that he may destroy him.
Matthew 27:1BUT when it was morning, the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jeshu, how they should put him to death.
Luke 20:14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
Acts 4:27For verily they are assembled in this city against thy holy Son Jeshu, whom thou hast anointed,-Herodes and Pilatos with the Gentiles and the synagogue of Israel,
Hebrews 1:2whom he constituted the heir of every thing, and by whom he made the worlds;
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 →