Matthew 21:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

Matthew 21:38 —

Old words in this verse

husbandman: — farmer, one who tends the land.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 37:18-20
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. …
Luke 20:14
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
Hebrews 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Mark 12:7-8
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. …
John 11:47-53
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 33-46)

This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; they and their leaders are the husbandmen here; and what is spoken for conviction to them, is spoken for caution to all that enjoy the privileges of the visible church, not to be high-minded, but fear. I. We have here the privileges of the Jewish church, represented by the letting out of a vineyard to the husbandmen; they were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves--Compare Ge 37:18-20; Joh 11:47-53. This is the heir--Sublime expression this of the great truth, that God’s inheritance was destined for, and in due time is to come into the possession of, His own Son in our nature (He 1:2). come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance--that so, from mere servants, we may become lor…