Luke 20:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Then began he to speak to the people this parable; ‹A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἤρξατο δὲ πρὸς τὸν λαὸν λέγειν τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωπός τις ἐφύτευσεν ἀμπελῶνα, καὶ ἐξέδοτο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν χρόνους ἱκανούς.

Transliteration

Ērxato de pros the laon legein the parabolēn this; Anthrōpos tis ephyteusen ampelōna, and exedoto it to geōrgois, and apedēmēsen chronous hikanous.

Grammar Details

• *Ērxato*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - he began
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
• *legein*: present infinitive - to say/speak
• *parabolēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - parable
• *Anthrōpos*: nominative, masculine, singular - man
• *tis*: indefinite pronoun - certain/some
• *ephyteusen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - planted
• *ampelōna*: accusative, masculine, singular - vineyard
• *exedoto*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - let out/rented
• *geōrgois*: dative, masculine, plural - farmers/vinedressers
• *apedēmēsen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - went away/journeyed
• *chronous*: accusative, masculine, plural - times/periods of time
• *hikanous*: accusative, masculine, plural - considerable/sufficient

Word Meanings

• *Ērxato*: he began/he started
• *de*: but/and/now
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *laon*: people/crowd/nation
• *legein*: to speak/to tell/to say
• *parabolēn*: parable/comparison/illustration
• *Anthrōpos tis*: a certain man/someone
• *ephyteusen*: planted/set out
• *ampelōna*: vineyard/grape field
• *exedoto*: rented out/leased/entrusted
• *geōrgois*: farmers/vinedressers/husbandmen
• *apedēmēsen*: went away/traveled abroad/departed
• *chronous hikanous*: for a long time/for sufficient time

Referenced Verses

• Matt 21:33-46 : 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 went into a far country:› 34 ‹And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.› 35 ‹And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.› 36 ‹Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.› 37 ‹But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.› 38 ‹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.› 39 ‹And they caught him, and cast› [him] ‹out of the vineyard, and slew› [him]. 40 ‹When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?› 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 42 Jesus saith unto them, ‹Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?› 43 ‹Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.› 44 ‹And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.› 45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. 46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
• Mark 12:1-9 : 1 ¶ And he began to speak unto them by parables. ‹A› [certain] ‹man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about› [it], ‹and digged› [a place for] ‹the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.› 2 ‹And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.› 3 ‹And they caught› [him], ‹and beat him, and sent› [him] ‹away empty.› 4 ‹And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded› [him] ‹in the head, and sent› [him] ‹away shamefully handled.› 5 ‹And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.› 6 ‹Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.› 7 ‹But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.› 8 ‹And they took him, and killed› [him], ‹and cast› [him] ‹out of the vineyard.› 9 ‹What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.› 10 ‹And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:› 11 ‹This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?› 12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
• Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. 12 My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
• Isa 5:1-7 : 1 ¶ Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
• Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• Matt 25:14 : 14 ¶ ‹For› [the kingdom of heaven is] ‹as a man travelling into a far country,› [who] ‹called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.›
• Deut 1:15-18 : 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
• Deut 16:18 : 18 ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
• Deut 17:8-9 : 8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother.
• Ps 80:8-9 : 8 ¶ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
• Luke 19:12 : 12 He said therefore, ‹A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.›
• John 15:1-8 : 1 ¶ ‹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.› 2 ‹Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every› [branch] ‹that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.› 3 ‹Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.› 4 ‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.› 5 ‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.› 6 ‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.› 7 ‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.› 8 ‹Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.›
• 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.