Matthew 21:46
and would have seized Him, but that they were afraid of the people; because they took Him for a prophet.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
45And when the chief priests and pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that He spake of them:
Cross References
Matthew 21:26But if we say, of men, we fear the people, for they all esteem John as a prophet.
Luke 7:39But when the pharisee that invited Him saw it, he said within himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what sort of a woman this is that toucheth Him; for she is a notorious sinner.
John 7:40Many of the people therefore, when they heard this discourse, said, This is in truth a prophet.
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 →