Matthew 21:39
37 Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
- KJV
- And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
- WEB
- So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.
- ASV
- And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
- DARBY
- And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
- BLB
- And having taken him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard and killed [him].
- ÅB
- Og de tok ham og kastet ham ut fra vingården og drepte ham.
- OTB
- Så tok de ham, kastet ham ut av vingården og drepte ham.
- B1930
- Og de tok ham og kastet ham ut av vingården og slo ham ihjel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 2:23
He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
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Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.
Read in contextLuke 22:52–54
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple officers, and elders who had come for Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against an outlaw?
Read in contextActs 3:14–15
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
Read in contextJames 5:6
You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
Read in contextActs 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Read in contextActs 4:25–27
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Read in contextMatthew 26:57
Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.
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