LUKE 20:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.”
He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed — sent another servant: the second prophet, also beaten and shamed. The pattern of sending and rejection is the prophetic history of Israel.
Church Fathers on Luke 20:11
The rulers of the Jewish people being now assembled together in the temple, Christ put forth a parable foretelling by a figure the things they were about to do to Him, and the rejection that was in store for them.
Matthew has omitted for brevity’s sake what Luke has not; namely, that the parable was spoken not to the rulers only who asked concerning His authority, but also to the people.
Now many derive different meanings from the name vineyard, but Esaias clearly relates the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth to be the house of Israel. This vineyard who else but God planted?
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