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 5:1–4Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• Mark 12:1–12He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
• Luke 20:9–19He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• John 15:1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
• Hos 4:1Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Ps 80:8–16You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
• Mal 2:4–9You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• 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 heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
• Mark 13:34“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Deut 16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Matt 13:18“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
• Matt 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Matt 25:14–15“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
• Matt 23:2saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.
• 1 Kgs 22:19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
• Deut 17:9–12You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
• Jer 19:3and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
• Isa 1:10Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Deut 33:8–10About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

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