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See also Matthew 21:38 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 38. _SAID AMONG THEMSELVES_] Alluding to the _conspiracies_ which were then forming against the life of our blessed Lord, in the _councils_ of the Jewish elders and chief priests. See Matthew 27...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD - This is also recorded in Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9. Matthew 21:33 HEAR ANOTHER PARABLE - See the notes at...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD (Mark 12:1 *, Luke 20:9). The chief peculiarities of Mt.'s version are (Matthew 21:39) the slaying of the heir outside the vineyard (perhaps a recollection of Jesus sufferi...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Jesus said, "Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to cultivators an...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AMONG. Greek. _en_. App-104. SEIZE ON. hold on to, or hold fast. See note on 2 Thessalonians 2:6, "withholdeth": which should be rendered as here....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _let us seize on his inheritance_ This would be impossible in real life, but not more impossible than the thought of the Pharisees that by the death of Jesus they would gain the spiritual supremacy....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Wicked Husbandmen Mark 12:1-11; Luke 20:9-18. No parable interprets itself more clearly than this. ISRAEL is represented by an image which the prophets had made familiar and unmistakeable the Vi...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΣΧΩ͂ΜΕΝ ΤῊΝ ΚΛΗΡ., ‘seize on his inheritance,’ ἔχειν being used in the technical sense which the English ‘seize’ also bears: cp. ἒχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος, _Antig._ 1265. Thomas Lawrence (1568–1583) sugg...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19 No parable interprets itself more clearly than this. Israel is represented by an image which the prophets had made familiar and unmistakeable—the Vine...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS SPOKE OF GOD'S GOODNESS AND DESIRE TO SAVE MATTHEW 21:33-46:_ "The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the House of Israel." (Isaiah 5:7) God had entrusted His vineyard to...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΔΕΎΤΕ (G1205) приходить, подходить, ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act., см._ Matthew 21:35. Совещат. _conj._: "давайте убьем" ΣΧΏΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192). Побудительный _conj._: "давайте возьм...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON— It would hence seem, that the Jews knew Jesus to be the Son of God. Yet Peter says both of the rulers and the people, that they crucified the Lord ignorantly, Acts 3:1...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SECTION 57 JESUS MEETS CHALLENGES TO HIS AUTHORITY: THREE PARABLES OF WARNING TEXT: 21:33-46 C. THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN 33 Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. BUT WHEN THE FARMERS SAW THE SON, THEY SAID AMONG THE...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    31 See Luk_7:29-30. 32 See Mat_3:1; Luk_3:12. 32 The Lord now proceeds to show them His authority and to expose their abuse of the privileges entrusted to them. They were mere tenants of God's viney...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nisan 8...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN (Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9). The doctrinal importance of this parable, which belongs to the oldest tradition, is great. In it Christ claims to be in a unique sense the Son of God. He...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THIS IS THE HEIR. — What we learn elsewhere enables us to understand the feelings with which the priests and scribes must have heard these words. Already had Caiaphas given the counsel that one man sh...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἰδόντες : neither have they; they recognise at once the son and heir, and resolve forthwith on desperate courses, which are at once carried out. They eject the son, kill him, and seize the inheritance...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Parable of the rebellious vine-dressers_ (Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19)....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    REJECTERS THEMSELVES REJECTED Matthew 21:33-46 This parable is based on Isaiah 5:1-7. The husbandmen are the religious leaders of the people. The vineyard is of course the Hebrew nation. The servants...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us (s) seize on his inheritance. (s) Literally, "let us hold it fast"....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Heir. From this text, it appears that the princes of the Jews knew Jesus to be the Messias, and that it was only through envy and malice they were so blinded as not to acknowledge him for the Son of G...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE WICKED HUSBANDMAN Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19. Matthew: “Hear another parable: A man who is a landlord planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge round it, and dug a wine-trough in it...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this auth...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON,.... Whom many of them knew, though some did not: some were entirely ignorant of him; some knew him, but durst not confess him, yet were not injurious to him; other...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. Ver. 38. _This is the heir; come, &c._] So that these hu...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And when the time of fruit drew near_ And a return was to be made to the proprietor from the profits of the vineyard, which was only let out to these husbandmen, that they might render to him duly th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT WHEN THE HUSBANDMEN SAW THE SON, THEY SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, THIS IS THE HEIR; COME, LET US KILL HIM, AND LET US SEIZE ON HIS INHERITANCE....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    v. 37. BUT LAST OF ALL HE SENT UNTO THEM. HIS SON, SAYING, THEY WILL RELEVANCE MY SON....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    33-46 This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; and what is spoken to convict them, is spoken to caution all that enjoy the privileges of the outward church. As men treat...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:39"....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 21:38 But G1161 vinedressers G1092 saw G1492 (G5631) son G5207 said G2036 (G5627) among G1722 themselves

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “But the vineyard workers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.' ” The reaction of the husbandmen is then given. ‘Said amon...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE QUESTION OF JESUS' AUTHORITY (21:37-22:46). While, as we have seen above, the section from Matthew 19:3 to Matthew 22:46 forms a complete section in itself, enclosed within a dissertation on true...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE FAITHLESS TENANTS (21:33-41). . The final build up of Jesus, and of what He has come to do, continues. He has entered Jerusalem as its King (Matthew 21:1). He has taken over the Tem...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    TIME. _Tuesday_, in the temple, after the discourse about the fig tree. The events recorded in chaps, 22, 23, took place on the same day; the discourse in chaps, 24, 26, was delivered in the evening a...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 21:38. THIS IS THE HEIR. ‘Heir' in virtue of His human nature, Hebrews 1:1-2. KEEP HIS INHERITANCE. Not ‘seize.' An expression of folly (in addition to the wicked resolve), as though the deat...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    TAKE HIS INHERITANCE (σχωμεν την κληρονομιαν αυτου). Ingressive aorist active subjunctive (hortatory, volitive) of εχω. Let us get his inheritance....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 21:23. _And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto, him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gav...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossiti...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    LET US KILL HIM. They made plans to kill him (John 11:53). If they could kill the son, they thought the vineyard would be theirs to keep....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard._ THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN I. A representation of the jewish church as regards its privileges and obligations. “There was a certain householde...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jeru­salem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action

  • The Gospels Compared

    JESUS TELLS THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED TENANTS MATTHEW 21:33-46; MARK 12:1-12; LUKE 20:9-19; MATTHEW 21:33 Hear another parable: T

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:33. A VINEYARD.—Was regarded as the most valuable plantation, which yielded the largest harvest, but required also the most constant labour and care (_Schaff_). A WINEPRESS...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...

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