Matthew 21:45
And when the chiefe Priestes and Pharises had heard his parables, they perceiued that hee spake of them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
46And they seeking to laye handes on him, feared the people, because they tooke him as a Prophet.
Cross References
Matthew 12:12How much more then is a man better then a sheepe? therefore, it is lawfull to doe well on a Sabbath day.
Luke 20:19Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against 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 →