Matthew 21:46 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁶But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

Matthew 21:46 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 21:11
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Matthew 21:26
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Acts 2:22
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
2 Samuel 12:7-13
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; …

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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. 46)

46. But when they sought to lay hands on him--which Luke (Lu 20:19) says they did “the same hour,” hardly able to restrain their rage. they feared the multitude--rather, “the multitudes.” because they took him for a prophet--just as they feared to say John’s baptism was of men, because the masses took him for a prophet (Mt 21:26). Miserable creatures! So, for this time, “they left Him and went the…