And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
| Word | Greek | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| And | δὲ de | G1161 | but · conjunction |
| when they had received | λαβόντες labontes | G2983 | while G138 (αἱρέομαι) is more violent · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine |
| they murmured | ἐγόγγυζον egonguzon | G1111 | to grumble · verb — imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural |
| against | κατὰ kata | G2596 | (prepositionally) down (in place or time) · preposition |
| the goodman of the house | οἰκοδεσπότου oikodespotou | G3617 | the head of a family · noun — genitive singular masculine |
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And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house--rather, "the householder," the word being the same as in Mat 20:1.
And when they had received it,.... The external privileges of the Gospel dispensation, an inheritance among them that are sanctified, and a right unto it, on the foot of free grace, they murmured against the good man of the house; who had been so kind and liberal, to those who came last into the vineyard, and had done no injury to them, but gave them a full reward. So the Jews that first believed in Christ, were at first uneasy at the Gospel being preached to the Gentiles, at the calling of them, and their partaking of the same privileges in a Gospel church state with them, without submitting to the ceremonies of the law, as they had done; just as the Pharisees, in Christ's time, murmured a…
Read the whole note in the consoleMatthew 20:1-16 Matthew 20:1-16 1. For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder, who went out at break of day to hire laborers into his vineyard. 2. And having made an agreement with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3. And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place. 4. And he said to them, Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever shall be right I will give you. 5. And they went away. And again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and acted in the same manner. 6. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why stand you here all the day idle? 7. They say to h…
Read the whole note in the consolePayment followed the day’s work (Deut 24:14-15).
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And this murmur of the labourers corresponds with the frowardness of this nation, which even in the time of Moses were stiff-necked.
Hence those who had preceded in labor also say, murmuring: These last worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the heat? For those have borne the burden of the day and the heat whom it befell from the beginning of the world, because they happened to live here for a long time, to endure also longer temptations of the flesh. For to bear the burden of the day and the heat is for each one to be wearied by the heat of his flesh through the times of a longer life.
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