used only in certain past tenses · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine
the husbandmen
γεωργοὶgeōrgoi
G1092
a land-worker · noun — nominative plural masculine
saw
εἴδωeídō
G1492
used only in certain past tenses
the son
υἱὸνhuion
G5207
a "son" (sometimes of animals) · noun — accusative singular masculine
they said
εἶπονeipon
G2036
to speak or say (by word or writing) · verb — second aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural
among
ἐνen
G1722
"in · preposition
themselves
ἑαυτοῖς·he'autois
G1438
him- (her- · reflexive pronoun
This
οὗτόςhoutos
G3778
the he (she or it) · demonstrative pronoun — nominative singular masculine
is
ἐστίestí
G2076
he (she or it) is
the heir
κληρονόμος·klēronomos
G2818
a sharer by lot · noun — nominative singular masculine
come
δεῦτε,deute
G1205
come hither! · interjection
let us kill
ἀποκτείνωμενapokteinōmen
G615
to kill outright · verb — present active subjunctive, 1st person plural
him
αὐτὸνauton
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — accusative singular masculine
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
let us seize
κατέχωkatéchō
G2722
to hold down (fast)
on
κληρονομίανklēronomian
G2817
heirship · noun — accusative singular feminine
his
αὐτοῦ.autou
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — genitive singular masculine
inheritance
κληρονομίαklēronomía
G2817
heirship
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Genesis 37:18-20 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may b…
Mark 12:7-8 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Matthew 26:3-4 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called…
John 11:47-53 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
Acts 4:27-28 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of I…
Psalms 2:2-8 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 21:38
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves--Compare Gen 37:18-20; Joh 11:47-53.
This is the heir--Sublime expression this of the great truth, that God's inheritance was destined for, and in due time is to come into the possession of, His own Son in our nature (Heb 1:2).
come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance--that so, from mere servants, we may become lords. This is the deep aim of the depraved heart; this is emphatically "the root of all evil."
John Gill on Matthew 21:38
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; others acted against light and conscience, with spite and malice, as did these men. They expected the Messiah about this time; they knew, by prophecy, it could not be long ere he appeared: when they saw Jesus of Nazareth, they knew by various circumstances, by all the characters of the Messiah meeting in him, and by his miracles, that he must be the same,
They said among themselves; privately, not openly to the people,
this is the heir; as indeed he is of all things, as the Son of God, and as the m…
Matthew 21:33-46
Matthew 21:33-46
Mark 21:1-12
Luke 20:9-19
33. Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it by a ditch, and dug a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it to husbandmen, and went abroad, 34. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive its fruits. 35. And the husbandmen, having seized his servants, wounded one, killed another, and stoned another. 36. Again, he sent other servants more numerous [37] than the first, and they did to them in the same manner. 37. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38. And when the…
Or we may suppose this fulfilled in the case of those Jews who, knowing Christ, believed in Him. But what follows, 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 the inheritance, was fulfilled in those who saw Christ, and knew Him to be the Son of God, yet crucified Him.
By what they say, This is the Son, He manifestly proves that the rulers of the Jews crucified the Son of God, not through ignorance, but through jealousy. For they understood that it was He to whom the Father speaks by the Prophet, Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance (Ps. 2:8.) The inheritance given to the Son is the holy Church; an inheritance not left Him by His Father when dying, but wonderfully purchased by His own death. Or, The Jews endeavoured by putting Him to death to seize upon the inheritance, when they strove to overthrow the faith which is through Him, and to substitute their own righteousness which is by the Law, and therewith to imbue the Gentiles. It follows, And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
After His entry into the Temple, and having cast out those who sold the animals for the sacrifices, then they took counsel to kill Him, Come, let us kill him. For they reasoned among themselves, It will happen that the people hereby shall disuse the practice of sacrificing, which pertains to our gain, and shall be content to offer the sacrifice of righteousness, which pertains to the glory of God; and so the nation shall no more be our possession, but shall become God's. But if we shall kill Him, then there being none to seek the fruit of righteousness from the people, the practice of offering sacrifice shall continue, and so this people shall become our possession; as it follows, And the inheritance shall be ours. These are the usual thoughts of all worldly Priests, who take no thought how the people shall live without sin, but look to how much is offered in the Church, and esteem that the profit of their ministry.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Capital And Labor · Strife between — Strife between
Conspiracy · .Against Jesus — .Against Jesus
Ecclesiasticism · Jewish, to be overthrown — Jewish, to be overthrown
Employee · CHARACTER OF UNRIGHTEOUS — CHARACTER OF UNRIGHTEOUS
Husbandman · An agriculturist — An agriculturist
Jews, The · Punishment of, for rejecting and killing Christ, illustrated — Punishment of, for rejecting and killing Christ, illustrated
Land · Leased — Leased
Lease · Of real estate — Of real estate
Parables · Parables of christ: Wicked husbandmen — Parables of christ: Wicked husbandmen
Persecution · The wicked: Illustrated — The wicked: Illustrated
Pharisees · .By Jesus — .By Jesus
Renting · Land — Land
Self-Condemnation · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Unfaithfulness · General scriptures concerning
on Matthew 21:37
Finally: God’s revelation climaxed in Jesus (see 13:16-17; Heb 1:1-2).
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
