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Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Luke 20:9-18

“The Stone Which the Builders Rejected” Luke 20:9-18 The vineyard represents the privileges and blessings of the Hebrew race. The servants are evidently the prophets and others sent from God. Whatever our position in life, God expects a revenue from it. We are not owners, but tenants; not proprietors, but stewards. Are you sure that you are giving God the dues which He may justly claim? Notice how our Lord severs Himself from all human messengers, as the Son. When He said my beloved Son ,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:1-47

This chapter records the remarkable happenings gathered around our Lord's entrance into the Temple. By a parable He revealed the awful sin and failure of the Hebrew nation, culminating in His own rejection, showing, moreover, that that sin must result ultimately in the breaking into pieces of the sinning people. The closing conflicts between the rulers and Jesus constitute the saddest revelation of the depravity of the human heart. Jesus' teaching had driven them into a comer from which there... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:1-47

Jesus Preaches In The Temple (19:47-21:38). Having driven the traders out of the Temple in His prophetic zeal Jesus then revealed the greatness of His great courage by returning daily to that same Temple in order to teach the people. As the traders, who would quickly have returned, watched with baleful eyes, and the Temple police stood by alert for trouble, Jesus boldly entered the Temple again, and ignoring both, proceeded to address the crowds gathered there. Indeed the great crowds that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:9-19

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants of a Vineyard (20:9-19). But Jesus did not leave it there, He riposted with a parable that connected His accusers with the slayers of the prophets, by this confirming their connection with others in the past who had been unable to recognise those who came from God, and at the same time remarkably laying down His claim to being the unique and only Son of God, thus answering their question about the source of His authority indirectly, which is one reason why in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:10-12

“And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. And he sent yet another servant, and him also they beat, and handled him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And he sent yet a third, and him also they wounded, and cast him out.” When the appropriate time came, and no fruit was forthcoming, the owner then sent a number of servants, one by one, in order to collect His portion of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:9-19

Luke 20:9-Psalms : . The Parable of the Vineyard ( Mark 12:1-2 Kings : *. Matthew 21:33-1 Corinthians : *).— Lk. omits the details of the preparation of the vineyard, and he confines the fate of death to the “ beloved son.” He alone gives the exclamation of the hearers “ God forbid” ( Luke 20:16), a protest against the idea that Israel should be overthrown and dispossessed. This is very different from Mt., who makes the hearers pass judgment on them- read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 20:9-18

We met with this parable at large both in Matthew 21:33-41, and in Mark 12:1-11. Its obvious scope is to let them know, that God in righteous judgment, for the Jews’ abusing the Lord’s prophets, John the Baptist, and himself, who was in a few days to be killed by them, would unchurch and destroy them, and raise up to himself a church amongst the Gentiles; and that this was no more than was prophesied of, Psalms 118:22. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 20:9-18

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 20:9. Then began He.—The opening of a fresh series of parables and discourses. This parable.—The substance of which is partly a history of the ingratitude and rebelliousness of the Jewish people, and partly a prophecy of their final act of apostasy in rejecting and slaying their Messiah, and of the punishment that would follow. A certain man.—The man represents God, the vineyard the Jewish nation, the husbandmen the rulers of the Jews. This parable is intimately connected... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 20:1-47

We are in the final week of the life of Jesus. He is now in Jerusalem. This is the week in which pilgrims are coming from all over the world to celebrate the Feast of the Passover. He has made His triumphant entry, that is on Sunday. He was officially rejected. He did cleanse the temple, driving out the moneychangers, taking authority in His Father's house. And He taught daily in the temple, we read in verse Luke 20:47 of chapter 19.So it came to pass, that on one of those days ( Luke 20:1... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 20:1-47

Luke 20:2 . Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things. A question after all his miracles which offered the foulest insult to God, and was the emanation of complot and of malice. See Matthew 21:25. Mark 11:30. Luke adds, that this question came from the three orders of the jewish council, the chief priests, the scribes, with the elders who did not belong to the tribe of Levi. By consequence, the question was like that of the highpriest, If thou be the Christ, tell us. It was asked... read more

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