is marvelous in our eyes'? ⢠God reverses the verdict of the religious leaders (âthe buildersâ) on Jesus (âthe stoneâ) (Acts 2:36). ⢠Jesus points forward here to His ...
The Holy Spirit caused St. Matthew Levi the Apostle and Evangelist to write this gospel around AD 50. Jesus tells this parable on Tuesday of Holy Week as He was teaching in the temple. He speaks this parable against the religious leaders. St. Mark tells of their reaction: “And they were seeking to arrest but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.” (12:12)
And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 35
• This is Israel’s rejection of the prophets and their message they proclaimed from the Lord. • Examples referring to this: Luke 11:47-51; Acts 7:52; Hebrews 11:36-38. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 36
[Jesus said,] “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
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• In this parable, the master of the house is God the Father; the vineyard is the Old Testament people; the fence, in general, the way He protected His people and in particular it can be seen as the Law by which God separated the Old Testament people from those around them; the winepress can be seen as the temple and its rituals which pointed the people forward to the coming Savior; the tower can be seen as the kings who were to watch out for the people and the doctrine; and the tenants are the religious leaders of the Jews.
Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
• God left nothing undone when it came to Israel’s spiritual welfare.
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God showed a great trust in these religious leaders. It was a good while that He did not show His presence.
When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 34
By rejecting the prophets, they were disrespecting God.
• God’s great grace and patience is clear as He keeps sending prophets; the extreme wickedness of the tenants is also clear. 37
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The master appears weak (1 Corinthians 1:27).
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The son is Jesus—the Second Person of the Holy Trinity and also true man.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 38
The Jews know that Jesus isn’t just a prophet but the Son of God. “The heir” (Hebrews 1:2) — Jesus is heir of all things.
• Here Jesus is showing that the Jews knew that He was not just a prophet but the Son of God, but they hardened their hearts against His teaching and miracles.
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The Holy Spirit caused St. Matthew Levi the Apostle and Evangelist to write this gospel around AD 50. Jesus tells this parable on Tuesday of Holy Week as He was teaching in the temple. He speaks this parable against the religious leaders. St. Mark tells of their reaction: “And they were seeking to arrest but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.” (12:12)
35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
• This is Israel’s rejection of the prophets and their message they proclaimed from the Lord. • Examples referring to this: Luke 11:47-51; Acts 7:52; Hebrews 11:36-38. 36 Again he sent other serva
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