Matthew 21:45

And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his similitudes, they understood that he spoke in reference to them.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

44And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be fractured; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him to atoms?

46And they sought to apprehend him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they accounted him as a prophet.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:12Now, how much better is a human being than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do what is good, on the sabbath.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and Scribes sought to lay hands on him, at that time; but they were afraid of the people; for they knew, that he spoke this similitude 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 →

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