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PARALLEL BIBLE - Matthew 21:33


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King James Bible - Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

World English Bible

"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

Douay-Rheims - Matthew 21:33

Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country.

Webster's Bible Translation

Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:

Greek Textus Receptus


αλλην
243 A-ASF παραβολην 3850 N-ASF ακουσατε 191 5657 V-AAM-2P ανθρωπος 444 N-NSM τις 5100 X-NSM ην 2258 5713 V-IXI-3S οικοδεσποτης 3617 N-NSM οστις 3748 R-NSM εφυτευσεν 5452 5656 V-AAI-3S αμπελωνα 290 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ φραγμον 5418 N-ASM αυτω 846 P-DSM περιεθηκεν 4060 5656 V-AAI-3S και 2532 CONJ ωρυξεν 3736 5656 V-AAI-3S εν 1722 PREP αυτω 846 P-DSM ληνον 3025 N-ASF και 2532 CONJ ωκοδομησεν 3618 5656 V-AAI-3S πυργον 4444 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ εξεδοτο 1554 5639 V-2AMI-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM γεωργοις 1092 N-DPM και 2532 CONJ απεδημησεν 589 5656 V-AAI-3S

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge

VERSE (33) -
Ps 80:8-16 So 8:11,12 Isa 5:1-4 Jer 2:21 Mr 12:1 Lu 20:9 *etc:

SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:33

¶ Oíd otra parbola: Hubo un hombre, padre de familia, el cual plant una via; y la cerc de vallado, y cav en ella un lagar, y edific una torre, y la dio a renta a labradores, y se fue lejos.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 21:33

Verse 33. There was a certain householder] Let us endeavour to find out a general and practical meaning for this
parable. A householder-the Supreme Being. The family-the Jewish nation. The vineyard-the city of Jerusalem. The fence-the Divine protection. The wine-press-the law and sacrificial rites. The tower-the temple, in which the Divine presence was manifested. The husbandmen-the priests and doctors of the law. Went from home-entrusted the cultivation of the vineyard to the priests, &c., with the utmost confidence; as a man would do who had the most trusty servants, and was obliged to absent himself from home for a certain time.

Our Lord takes this parable from Isa. v. 1, &c.; but whether our blessed Redeemer quote from the law, the prophets, or the rabbins, he reserves the liberty to himself to beautify the whole, and render it more pertinent.

Some apply this parable also to Christianity, thus:-The master or father-our blessed Lord. The family-professing Christians in general. The vineyard-the true Church, or assembly of the faithful. The hedge-the true faith, which keeps the sacred assembly enclosed and defended from the errors of heathenism and false Christianity. The wine-press- the atonement made by the sacrifice of Christ, typified by the sacrifices under the law.

The tower-the promises of the Divine presence and protection. The husbandmen-the apostles and all their successors in the ministry. The going from home-the ascension to heaven. But this parable cannot go on all fours in the Christian cause, as any one may see. In the ease of the husbandmen, especially it is applicable; unless we suppose our Lord intended such as those inquisitorial Bonners, who always persecuted the true ministers of Christ, and consequently Christ himself in his members; and to these may be added the whole train of St. Bartholomew EJECTORS, and all the fire and faggot men of a certain Church, who think they do God service by murdering his saints. But let the persecuted take courage: Jesus Christ will come back shortly; and then he will miserably destroy those wicked men: indeed, he has done so already to several, and let out his vineyard to more faithful husbandmen.

Digged a wine-press] wruxe lhnon. St. Mark has upolhnion, the pit under the press, into which the liquor ran, when squeezed out of the fruit by the press.


John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 33. Hear another parable , etc.] Which, though Luke says was spoken to the people, who, were gathered round about him, yet was directed to, and against the chief priests; who continued with him till it was delivered, and the application of it made; when they perceived it was spoken of them.

The design of it is, to set forth the many favours and privileges bestowed on the Jewish nation; their unfruitfulness, and the ingratitude of the principal men among them; and their barbarous usage of the servants of the Lord, and particularly of the Son of God himself: the consequence of which would be, the removal of the Gospel from them, and the miserable destruction of them. So that this parable is partly a narrative, of some things past, and partly a prophecy of some things to come: there was a certain householder : by whom the great God of heaven and earth is meant; who may be so called, either with respect to the whole world, which is an house of his building, and the inhabitants of it are his family, who live, are nourished, and supplied by him; or to the church, the house of the living God, the family in heaven and in earth, called the household of God, and of faith; or to the people of Israel, often called the house of Israel, the family, above all the families of the earth, God took notice of, highly favoured, and dwelt among. Which planted a vineyard : of the form of a vineyard, the manner of planting it, and the size of it, the Jews say many things in their Misna f1143 . He that plants a row of five vines, the school of Shammai say, it is a vineyard; but the school of Hillell say, it is not a vineyard, unless there are two rows he that plants two vines over against two, and one at the tail or end, rk hz yrh , lo! this is a vineyard; (it was a little vineyard;) but if two over against two, and one between the two, or two over against two, and one in the midst, it is no vineyard, unless there are two over against two, and one at the tail or end.

Again f1144 , a vineyard that is planted with less than four cubits (between every row), R. Simeon says, is no vineyard; but the wise men say it is a vineyard.

And the decision is according to them. Now by this vineyard is meant, the house of Israel and the men of Judah, the nation of the Jews, as in ( Isaiah 5:7) from whence our Lord seems to have taken many of the ideas expressed in this parable; who were a people separated from the rest of the world, and set with valuable plants, from whom fruit might reasonably be expected: the planting of them designs the removing them out of Egypt, the driving out the natives before them, and settling them in the land of Canaan, where they were planted with choice vines, such as Joshua, Caleb, etc. and where they soon became a flourishing people, though for their iniquities, often exposed to beasts of prey, the neighbouring nations, that were suffered at times to break in upon them.

The Jews often speak of the house of Israel, as the vineyard of the Lord of hosts, and even call their schools and universities vineyards: hence we read of hnbyb rk , the vineyard in Jabneh, where the scholars were placed in rows, as in a vineyard. And hedged it round about ; as it was usual to set a hedge, or make a wall round a vineyard, which according to the Jewish writers, was to be ten hands high, and four broad; for they ask f1147 , rdg hz ya , what is a hedge? That which is ten hands, high.

And elsewhere f1149 , An hedge that encompasses a vineyard, which is less than ten hands high, or which is ten hands high, but not four hands broad, it has no circuit (or void place between that and the vines) an hedge which is ten hands high, and so a ditch which is ten hands deep, and four broad, lo! this is lawful to plant a vineyard on one side of it, and herbs on the other; even a fence of reeds, if there is between the reeds the space of three hands, lo! this divides between the vineyard and the herbs, as an hedge.

By this hedge is designed, either the law, not the oral law, or the traditions of the elders, which the Jews call hrwtl gys , an hedge for the law, which was none of Gods setting, but their own; but either the ceremonial law, which distinguished them from other people, was a middle wall of partition between them, and the nations of the world, and kept them from coming among them, and joining together; or the moral law, which taught them their duty to God and man, and was the means of keeping them within due bounds; or else the protection of them by the power of God, which was an hedge about them, is here intended; and which was very remarkable at the time of their three feasts of passover, pentecost, and tabernacles; when all their males went up to Jerusalem, and the whole country was, left an easy prey to the nations about them; but God preserved them, and, according to his promise, suffered not their neighbours to have any inclination or desire after their land. And digged a winepress in it ; which is not Uyrj , the ditch, that went through a, vineyard; for this cannot be said of a winepress, and is Dr.

Lightfoots mistake f1150 ; but tg , the winefat, in which they squeezed the grapes and made the wine, and this used to be in the vineyard: the rule about it is this, rkb tgh , the winepress that is ten hands deep and four broad, R. Eliezer says, they may set in it; but the wise men do forbid it f1151 .

By this may be meant, the altar where the drink offerings of wine were poured forth; and so the Targumist renders it by yjbdm , my altar I have given them, to atone for their sins: though one of their commentators f1153 , by it, understands the prophets, who taught Israel the law, that their works might be good before God and men; they urged and pressed them to the performance of them, as grapes are squeezed in the winepress: and built a tower ; the same the Jews call hrmw , the watch house; which was an high place, in which the watchman stood to keep the vineyard, and which was built in the vineyard; of this they say, rkb hrmw , the watch house which is in the vineyard, that is ten hands high and four broad, they set in it f1155 .

By this is meant, either the city or Jerusalem, which stood in the midst, and on the highest part of the land of Israel; or the temple, which stood on the highest part of Jerusalem, where the priests and Levites kept their watch every night; and so the Targumist interprets it, by ydqm , my sanctuary I built among them: that is, the temple: and let it out to husbandmen ; of which there were different sorts, as there were different methods of hiring and letting out fields and vineyards among the Jews: one sort was called rkwh , and such was he, who hired of his neighbour a field to sow in it, or a vineyard to eat of the fruit of it, for a certain sum of money yearly; (see Song of Solomon 8:11) another sort was called rkwjh , and this was one that hired a field, or a vineyard, and agreed to give the proprietor of it yearly, so many measures of the fruit thereof, whether it yielded more or less; and there was a third sort, called syra , or lbqm , and such was he, who agreed to give the owner half, or a third, or a fourth part of the increase of the field, or vineyard f1157 . Now it is not of the former, but of the latter sort of letting out and farming, that this is to be understood; not of letting it out for money, but for fruit, as appears from ( Matthew 21:34) and by the husbandmen are meant, the rulers of the Jews, civil and ecclesiastical, especially the latter; the priests, Levites, and Scribes, who were intrusted with the care of the Jewish people, to guide and instruct them, and cultivate the knowledge of divine things among them, that they might bring forth fruits of righteousness; and to offer their gifts and sacrifices, and the like, which are meant by letting out the vineyard to them: and went into afar country; which must be interpreted consistent with the omnipresence of God, who is every where, and cannot be said properly to move from place to place; but fills heaven and earth with his presence, and cannot be contained in either: but this phrase seems to design his taking up his residence in the thick darkness, in the tabernacle and temple, when the civil and ecclesiastical state of the Jews was settled, and God did not appear to them in that visible manner he had done before; but having fixed their order of government, worship, and duty, left them to themselves and their rulers; for many years; in which he expressed much longsuffering and patience towards them.


Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 33-46 - This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation and what is spoken to convict them, is spoken to caution all that enjo the privileges of the outward church. As men treat God's people, the would treat Christ himself, if he were with them. How can we, i faithful to his cause, expect a favourable reception from a wicke world, or from ungodly professors of Christianity! And let us as ourselves, whether we who have the vineyard and all its advantages render fruits in due season, as a people, as a family, or as separat persons. Our Saviour, in his question, declares that the Lord of the vineyard will come, and when he comes he will surely destroy the wicked. The chief priests and the elders were the builders, and the would not admit his doctrine or laws; they threw him aside as despised stone. But he who was rejected by the Jews, was embraced by the Gentiles. Christ knows who will bring forth gospel fruits in the use of gospel means. The unbelief of sinners will be their ruin. But God has many ways of restraining the remainders of wrath, as he has of making that which breaks out redound to his praise. May Christ becom more and more precious to our souls, as the firm Foundation an Cornerstone of his church. May we be willing to follow him, thoug despised and hated for his sake __________________________________________________________________


Greek Textus Receptus


αλλην
243 A-ASF παραβολην 3850 N-ASF ακουσατε 191 5657 V-AAM-2P ανθρωπος 444 N-NSM τις 5100 X-NSM ην 2258 5713 V-IXI-3S οικοδεσποτης 3617 N-NSM οστις 3748 R-NSM εφυτευσεν 5452 5656 V-AAI-3S αμπελωνα 290 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ φραγμον 5418 N-ASM αυτω 846 P-DSM περιεθηκεν 4060 5656 V-AAI-3S και 2532 CONJ ωρυξεν 3736 5656 V-AAI-3S εν 1722 PREP αυτω 846 P-DSM ληνον 3025 N-ASF και 2532 CONJ ωκοδομησεν 3618 5656 V-AAI-3S πυργον 4444 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ εξεδοτο 1554 5639 V-2AMI-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM γεωργοις 1092 N-DPM και 2532 CONJ απεδημησεν 589 5656 V-AAI-3S

Vincent's NT Word Studies

33. Hedged it round about (fragmon autw perieqhken). Rev., more literally, set a hedge about it; possibly of the thorny
wild aloe, common in the East.

Digged a wine-press (wruxen lhnon). In Isa. v. 1, 1, which this parable at once recalls, the Hebrew word rendered by the Septuagint and here digged, is hewed out, i.e., from the solid rock. "Above the road on our left are the outlines of a wine-fat, one of the most complete and best preserved in the country. Here is the upper basin where the grapes were trodden and pressed. A narrow channel cut in the rock conveyed the juice into the lower basin, where it was allowed to settle; from there it was drawn off into a third and smaller basin. There is no mistaking the purpose for which those basin were excavated in the solid rock" (Thomson, "Land and Book").

A tower (purgon). For watchmen. Stanley ("Sinai and Palestine") describes the ruins of vineyards in Judea as enclosures of loose stones, with the square gray tower at the corner of each. Allusions to these watching-places, temporary and permanent, are frequent in Scripture. Thus, "a booth in a vineyard" (Isa. i. 8). "The earth moveth to and fro like a hammock" (so Cheyne on Isaiah; A.V., cottage; Rev., hut), a vineyard-watchman's deserted hammock tossed to and fro by the storm (Isa. xxiv. 20). So Job speaks of a booth which the keeper of a vineyard runneth up (xxvii. 18), a hut made of sticks and hung with mats, erected only for the harvest season on the field or vineyard, for the watchman who spreads his rude bed upon its high platform, and mounts guard against the robber and the beast. In Spain, where, especially in the South, the Orient has left its mark, not only upon architecture but also upon agricultural implements and methods, Archbishop Trench says that he has observed similar temporary structures erected for watchmen in the vineyards. The tower alluded to in this passage would seem to have been of a more permanent character (see Stanley above), and some have thought that it was intended not only for watching, but as a storehouse for the wine and a lodging for the workmen.

Let it out (exedeto). "There were three modes of dealing with land. According to one of these, the laborers employed received a certain portion of the fruits, say a third or a fourth of the produce. The other two modes were, either that the tenant paid a money-rent to the proprietor, or else that he agreed to give the owner a definite amount of the produce, whether the harvest had been good or bad. Such leases were given by the year or for life; sometimes the lease was even hereditary, passing from father to son. There can scarcely be a doubt that it is the latter kind of lease which is referred to in the parable: the lessees being bound to give the owner a certain amount of fruits in their season" (Edersheim, "Life and Times of Jesus"). Compare ver. 34, and Mark xii. 2, "that he might receive of the fruits" (apo twn karpwn).


Robertson's NT Word Studies

21:33 {A hedge} (phragmon). Or fence as a protection against wild beasts. {Digged a winepress} ("ruxen lenon). Out of the solid rock to hold the grapes and wine as they were crushed. Such wine-vats are to be seen today in Palestine. {Built a tower} (wikodomesen purgon). this for the vinedressers and watchmen (#2Ch 26:10). Utmost care was thus taken. Note "a booth in a vineyard" (#Isa 1:8). See also #Isa 24:20; Job 27:18. Let it out (exedeto, exedoto the usual form). For hire, the terms not being given. The lease allowed three forms, money-rent, a proportion of the crop, or a definite amount of the produce whether it was a good or bad year. Probably the last form is that contemplated here.


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