LUKE 20:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?”
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? — threw him out of the vineyard and killed him: the execution outside the vineyard (the crucifixion outside Jerusalem). What will the owner do to them: the rhetorical question that anticipates the judgment.
Church Fathers on Luke 20:15
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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