LUKE 20:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.”
He went on to tell the people this parable: a man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time — the Wicked Tenants parable is addressed to the people (unlike the authority question which was addressed to the Sanhedrin). The vineyard imagery draws on Isaiah 5:1–7 — the vineyard of Israel entrusted to its caretakers.
Church Fathers on Luke 20:9
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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