August 24, 2010
Matthew 21:33-46.Can you add any relevant scriptures or comments (long question)?
By Planet Wealth
Matthew 21:33-46……..The Parable of the Tenants
33 "Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He place a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
35 "The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38 "But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 "Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"
41 "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they answered, "and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time."
42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures:
" ‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone[h];
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 "Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were worried of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
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 delight in the privileges of the outward church. As men treat God’s people, they would treat Christ himself, if he were with them. How can we, if faithful to his cause, expect a favourable reception from a wicked world, or from ungodly professors of Christianity! And let us question ourselves, whether we who have the vineyard and all its advantages, render fruits in due season, as a people, as a family, or as separate persons. Our Saviour, in his question, declares that the Lord of the vineyard will come, and when he comes he will surely ruin the wicked. The chief priests and the elders were the builders, and they would not admit his doctrine or laws; they threw him aside as a despised stone. But he who was rejected by the Jews, was embraced by the Gentiles. Christ knows who will bring forth gospel fruits in the use of gospel means. The unbelief of sinners will be their ruin. But God has many ways of restraining the remainders of wrath, as he has of making that which breaks out redound to his praise. May Christ become more and more precious to our souls, as the firm Foundation and Cornerstone of his church. May we be willing to follow him, though despised and despised for his sake.
Is the commentary right ?
(This is a lot of scripture & a long commentary so instead of asking a lot of questions about it , could you just clarify what you know about these scriptures)
Can you add any relevant scriptures or comments ?
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August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
The murderous cultivators (Mt 21:33-44; Mr 12:1-11; Lu 20:9-18). Spoken in the temple in Jerusalem, just three days before Jesus, God’s Son, was killed. This illustration, too, was in answer to the question about the source of Jesus’ authority. (Mr 11:27-33) Immediately after the illustration, the Gospel accounts state that the religious leaders realized that he was speaking about them.—Mt 21:45; Mr 12:12; Lu 20:19.
The fence around the vineyard might have been of stone (Pr 24:30, 31) or it might have been a hedge. (Isa 5:5) The wine vat was frequently excavated in the rock and consisted of two levels, the juice flowing from the upper one to the lower. The tower was a lookout place for the guard, who was to keep out thieves and animals. In some cases, the cultivators employed received a certain part of the fruits. In other cases, the cultivators paid rent in money or agreed to give the owner a certain amount of the produce, the latter apparently being the case in the illustration. By murdering the son, the heir, they may have thought to seize the vineyard as their own, since the one who planted it was out of the country. In Isaiah 5:1-7 “the vineyard of Jehovah” is said to be “the house of Israel.” As shown by the Gospel writers, Jesus quoted Psalm 118:22, 23 as a key to understanding the illustration.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
This is another way Jesus is telling people to stay humble and then they will have the most vital place in heaven. God has said that He will ruin the proud but bless the humble. That is what it means simply. I pray that God is kind to you and blesses you with peace. Amen.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
It is not exclusively for Israel, but for all generations in all nations, to any that would attempt to step on God´s elect. And though they may seem to overcome and win now, in this present time, yet in the end, they shall be miserably brought down.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
those are fascinating verses.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
I reckon this commentary is pretty excellent.
Also consider the timing of this parable. In the next few days the Jewish people are about to crucify Jesus. At his trial, Jesus professes that he is the Son of God, but the Jewish leaders reject him (Matt 27:66). After Jesus is resurrected, he tells his disciples to go out into all the world and make disciples (not just to go to the Jews) Matt 28:19-20.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
I trust Mathew Henry’s commentary
See Mark 12-1-12 and Luke 20:9-19
Most of Jesus’ parables make one main point. This one is rather complex, and the details fit the social situation in Jewish Galilee in the first century. Large estates, owned by absentee landlords, were place in the hands of local peasants who cultivated the land as tenant farmers. The parable exposed the plotted attempt on Jesus’ life, and God’s judgment on the planners
Luke 20:10 he sent a servant. This parable ( v 9 ) is reminiscent of Isaiah 5:1-7. The servants who were sent to the tenants represent the prophets of God sen in former times who were rejected ( Ne 9:26, Jer 7:25-26, 25:4-7, Mt 23:34, Ac 7:52, Heb 11:36-38 )
give him some of the fruit: In accordance with a kind of sharecropping agreement, a fixed amount was due the landowner. At the proper time he would expect to receive his share
Luke 20:13 my son, whom I like: The specific referance to the beloved son makes clearer the intended application of the son in the parable to the Son, Jesus Christ ( Luke 3.22, Mt 17:5 )
Luke 20:14 the inheritance will be ours: Jewish law provided that a piece of property unclaimed by an heir would bedeclared " ownerless", and could be claimed by anyone. The tenenats assumed that the son came as heir to claim his property, and if he were killer, they could claim the land
Luke 20:16 give the vineyard to others: ( other tenants ): Gentiles, to whom Paul turned when the Jews, for most part, rejected the gospel ( Ac 13:46, 18:6 ). By the second century the church was composed nearly entirely of Gentiles
Luke 20:17 the stone builders rejected: Ps 118:22 Most likely a reference to the ing ( whose deliveranc and victory are being celebrated ), who had been looked on with disdain by the kings invadin his realm – the builders of wordly empires. Others suppose that the stone refers to Israel, a nation held in contempt by the world powers
the capstone: Lit. " head of the corner" – either a capstone over a door ( a large stone used as a lintel ), or a large stone used to anchor and align the corner of a wall, or the keystone of an arch( Zec 4:7, 10:4 ). By a wordplay ( pun ) the author hints at " chief ruler " ( the Herew word " corner" is sometimes used as a metaphor for leared/ruler – see Isa 19:13, Jdg 20:2, 1 Sa 14:38). This stone, disbuted by worldly powers, has become the most vital in the structure of the new world order that God is bringing about through Israel. Jesus applied this verse ( and v 23 ) to Himself ( Matt 21:42, Mark 12:10-11, Luke 20:17, Ac 4:11, Eph 2:20, 1 Pe 2:7 )
Luke 20:18 will be broken pieces : As a pot dashed against a stone is broken, and as one lying beneath a falling stone is crushed, so is he who reject Jesus the Messiahwill be doomed
Luke 20:19 teachers of the law: The "scribes". For their opposition to Jesus see Luke 5:30, 9:22, 19:47, 22:2, 23:10 )
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Jesus and John were lovers. That’s so sweet…. (Small answer)
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
We are in the Latter Days, and many previously confusing things in Scripture are now becoming very plain.
The tenants who laboured to pay the landlord, are of course the mortgage holders of America. When the landowners servants, (the bankers) came to question for the money that was rightfully theirs, the greedy borrowers did not pay up. Instead, they treated the bankers to abuse and public ridicule.
God sent a new president, but the tenants reviled him also.
Soon God himself will come, and they will surely all die a miserable death and be cast into a lake of dark fire.
Read this and know!
Nehemiah 5
1. And there was a fantastic weep of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
2. For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
3. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4. There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
5. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
In this parable Jesus was not only reminding the religious establishment what they were like, but He was putting in their minds a question, how could they claim obedience as God’s people and still reject His messengers? We don’t know how many servants the owner sent, but that is not what is vital; the theme is God’s repeated appeal through His prophets to an unrepentant people. In next verses (37-39), the situation becomes even more critical. The landowner sends his own son believing that they will surely respect him. But the tenants see an opportunity here; they believe that if they kill the son they will then receive his inheritance. The law at the time provided that if there were no heirs then the property would pass to those in possession (possession is nine tenths of the law). This amounts to conspiracy to commit murder by the Jewish leadership, and it is prophetic in the sense that Jesus is now telling them what they are going to do to Him (see Psalm 118:22, Isaiah 28:16). Sometime later, after Jesus’ death, Peter would make the same charges against the religious establishment (Acts 4:8-12). The tenants probably thought that the fight for the property was over; but it wasn’t, the owner would now appear on the scene.
Jesus now (vs.40-41) questions the question, what will the owner do to the evil tenants? What He is doing is forcing the religious leaders/priest to declare their own miserable fate; condemnation for their blatant disobedience. This is similar in nature to the question that Nathan place to David (2 Samuel 12:1-7). Up to this point Jesus has been dealing with the immediate situation of Israel and its past disobedience; but now Jesus leaves open the question of what Israel’s leadership is going to do with the messiah, the Son of God, which He refers to as the “chief cornerstone (vs 42).” Cornerstones and capstones are used symbolically in Scripture and picture Christ as the main piece of the foundation of the church, and the head of the church respectively. Jesus is the beginning of and is foundational to the church, and He now stands over the church in His rightful position of honor; guiding the church to fulfill its divine destiny. This verse now makes clear prophetically how Jesus will be rejected by the religious establishment and ultimately be crucified (see Psalms 118:22-23).
The key to understanding this parable and what it says about the religious leaders is found in verse 43, where Jesus will now make their lack of obedience personal. Jesus tells the leaders that because of their disobedience that they will be left out of the Kingdom of heaven (individually and as a people); that they have let their opportunity for the time-being slip away to be given to the gentiles (see verse 41 “other tenants”). This will be more than they can tolerate, as we will see in verses 45 and 46. He is saying that there will be a new people of God made up of all peoples who will temporarily replace the Jews so that Jesus can establish His church. This will change the way God deals with man, from the ancient dispensation of the law to a new dispensation of God’s grace. It will usher in a period of time where man will no longer know forgiveness of sins as man’s work through what he does or doesn’t do, and the sacrifices of animals on the altar; but by the work of Christ on the cross.
for more go to my source, I liked this comentary.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
This commentary is right. There is scripture related to this but there are a lot of ministers that just don’t see the relationship. This parable is a lot more complex than is written. The exact same tale in a different way is the tale of Cain and Abel. God loved Abel. Cain killed Abel. God made Cain a fugitive and a vagabond. Cain told God that his punishment is greater than he could bear.
Israel and Jesus are brothers God being their Father. God loved Jesus Israel killed Jesus. God has made them fugitives and vagabonds. Jesus even warned Israel that they would be despised of all nations.
Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
These 2 scriptures prove that Israel and Jesus are brothers
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
The parable of the wicked husbandmen was a direct reproof to the chief priests and elders as conspirators who were seeking the death of Christ. In it the householder represents God; the son, Christ; the servants, Moses and the prophets the husbandmen, the Pharisees and scribes, teachers of the people. Christ as the son of the householder, claims to be the Son of God, thus giving his accusers the final answer to their question as to the authority by which he preached and wrought miracles.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Householder represents God the Father, the vineyard represents Israel, the husbandmen were the priests and religious leaders, and the far country is heaven. The fruit represents spiritual evidence of right conversion, which was to be the end result of the work of the husbandmen. The servants sent by the owner represent the Ancient Testament prophets who came to right religious abuses in the nation and were also rejected by hater contemporaries. Last of all indicates that Jesus was God’s final emissary to Israel. None has ever appeared since Him,and none ever will in til the Jews recognize Christ as their final Prophet and Messiah. The desire to kill the rightful heir of the Father had already been expressed by the Jewish leaders. Jesus clearly foretells His coming rejection and death with the statement…they slew him.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
jesus was telling israel they had constantly killed the prophets God had sent over the years. The prophets tried to get Israel to repent but rebelled.
When God sent his son they denied and sought to kill him.
Jesus was telling them her by prophecy what was to happen to them. because of their rejection of jesus the message of salvation was given to the gentiles by the salvation jesus came to give. they accepted it gladly.
Jesus as the foundation for salvation was the stone rejected as being worthless and no excellent. People who trip over this stone will be ruined or ruined. Rejecting Jesus for salvation will result in a person being spiritually ruined.
The stone falling on you with judgment will end that persons chances of eternal life and be sent to hell.
right now we are in the age of the gentiles.
God says that will come to a end.
He will then seek to redeem israel again
this happens during the tribulation period and God will set up his eternal kingdom.on earth.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Rom 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
Rom 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
This parable was addressed to the children of Israel who as the tenants not recognising Jesus as the Messiah were the wicked servants. The vineyard is their synagogue. The servants sent to them to receive fruit are the prophets who they killed. Then at lastr God sent His Son to them who they did not recognise and had Him killed as well. Because they had not recognised Jesus as the Messiah and had Him killed God has given over the gospel of Christ which is the power of God for salvation and the church over to those who are not Jews. This parable shows that salvation which was intended first for the Jews was given to those who are not Jews because of what unbelieving Jews had done to God’s prophets and His Son. God bless you.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:47 am
to know this prophecy you have to make a list of the servants that was chased away and the son (Christ) who was killed.
The owner of there vineyards is god
The Bible tells you that Christ will return in the name of the farther
(The Glory of god)
You have to look for the (new name) that means the (glory of god)
Pleas Find out who the vineyard is given to this is a warning to Christan’s that Jesus left for you