MATTHEW 21:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.”
When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. The landowner's messengers sent for the fruit communicates the prophetic tradition: God sent the prophets to call Israel to the covenant faithfulness (fruit) that the vineyard was designed to produce.
Church Fathers on Matthew 21:34
aug ht him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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