Matthew 21:33-40

The Parable of the Tenants

33 q "Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted r a vineyard s and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and t leased it to tenants, and u went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants 1 to the tenants t to get his fruit. 35 v And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and w stoned another. 36 x Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, y 'This is the heir. Come, z let us kill him and have his inheritance.' 39 And they took him and a threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 b When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 21:33 - 46
    Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
    Mark 12:1 - 12
    And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
    Luke 20:9 - 19
    And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 21:28
    "What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
    Psalms 80:8
    You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
    Isaiah 5:1
    Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:2
    He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
  4. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 8:11 - 12
    Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 25:14 - 15
    For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
    Mark 13:34
    It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
  6. Cross References
    Matthew 21:33 - 46
    Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
    Mark 12:1 - 12
    And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
    Luke 20:9 - 18
    And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 21:33
    Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
  8. Cross References
    Matthew 5:12
    Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great i...
    Matthew 22:6
    While the rest seized his servants, treated the...
    Matthew 23:34
    Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and ...
    Matthew 23:37
    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the...
    2 Chronicles 24:19
    Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them b...
    2 Chronicles 36:15 - 16
    The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persis...
    Nehemiah 9:26
    Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelle...
    Jeremiah 37:15
    And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and...
    Jeremiah 38:6
    So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cis...
    Acts 7:52
    Which of the prophets did your fathers not pers...
    2 Corinthians 11:24 - 26
    Five times I received at the hands of the Jews ...
    1 Thessalonians 2:15
    Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets...
    Hebrews 11:36 - 37
    Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even ...
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 24:21
    But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
    John 10:31 - 33
    The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
    Acts 7:59
    And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
  10. Cross References
    Matthew 22:4
    Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.
  11. Cross References
    Hebrews 1:2
    But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
    John 1:11
    He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
    Romans 8:17
    And if children, then heirs - heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
  12. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:19
    And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the Lord : "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'
  13. Cross References
    Hebrews 13:12
    So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
  14. Cross References
    Matthew 24:50
    The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
    Matthew 25:19
    Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
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