LUKE 20:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.”
He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. When the people heard this, they said, God forbid — he will kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others: the judgment and the transfer. When the people heard this, they said, God forbid (mē genoito, may it not be): the people recognize the severity of the judgment and instinctively reject it.
Church Fathers on Luke 20:16
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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