Matthew 21:40

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Mark 12:9 : 9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
  • Luke 20:15-16 : 15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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  • Matt 21:41-43
    3 verses
    91%

    41They 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."

    42Jesus 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.

  • Luke 20:9-17
    9 verses
    88%

    9He 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.

    10At 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.

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

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

    13The 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.'

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

    16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

    17But 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?'

  • Mark 12:7-9
    3 verses
    88%

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

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

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

  • Matt 21:33-39
    7 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Mark 12:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1He 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.

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

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

  • Matt 21:28
    77%

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

  • Isa 5:2-5
    4 verses
    76%

    2He 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.

    4What 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?

    5Now 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 20:4
    76%

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

  • Matt 20:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

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

  • Luke 12:45-46
    2 verses
    75%

    45But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

    46then 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.

  • Matt 20:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

    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.'

    8When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

  • Matt 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Matt 24:50
    74%

    50the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

  • Luke 13:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

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

    7He 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?'

  • Matt 13:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

    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 14:21
    73%

    21"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

  • Luke 12:43
    72%

    43Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

  • Matt 20:11
    72%

    11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

  • Matt 25:19
    72%

    19"Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

  • Luke 12:40
    71%

    40Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."