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Matthew 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner¹ who planted a vineyard.² He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then³ he leased it to tenant farmers⁴ and went on a journey.

Matthew 21:41

Context
21:41 They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

¹tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

²sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

³tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁴sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.

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