Luke 20:16

World English Bible (2000)

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

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  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
  • Matt 21:41 : 41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • Neh 9:36-37 : 36 "Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it. 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
  • Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. 10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

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  • Mark 12:1-10
    10 verses
    89%

    1 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

    3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

    4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

    5 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

    6 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

    7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

    8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

    9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

    10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

  • Luke 20:9-15
    7 verses
    88%

    9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

    10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

    11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

    12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

    13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

    14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

    15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

  • Matt 21:33-44
    12 verses
    87%

    33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

    34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

    35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

    36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

    37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

    38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

    39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

    41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

    42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

    43 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.

    44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

  • Luke 20:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

    17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

    18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

    19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

  • Matt 20:4
    75%

    4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

  • Matt 22:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

    6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

    7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

  • Isa 5:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

    3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

    4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

    5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

  • Matt 21:28
    73%

    28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

  • Matt 20:7
    73%

    7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

  • Matt 15:13
    73%

    13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

  • Luke 13:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

  • 1 Sam 8:14
    73%

    14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

  • Matt 20:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

    2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

  • Matt 13:28
    72%

    28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

  • Luke 12:46
    72%

    46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.