Matthew 21:33

Jesus tells the parable of the wicked tenants, drawing on Isaiah's image of God's vineyard. It traces Israel's history of rejecting God's messengers.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 5:1–4Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
• Mark 12:1–12And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
• Luke 20:9–19Then 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.
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• John 15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
• Hos 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Ps 80:8–16Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
• Mal 2:4–9And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Luke 19:12He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
• Deut 1:15–17So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
• Mark 13:34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
• Deut 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
• Matt 13:18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
• Matt 21:28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
• Matt 25:14–15For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
• Matt 23:2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
• 1 Kgs 22:19And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
• Deut 17:9–12And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
• Jer 19:3And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
• Isa 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
• Deut 33:8–10And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

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