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Luke 20:10

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

KJV

καὶ καιρῷ ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς τοὺς γεωργοὺς δοῦλον, ἵνα ἀπὸ τοῦ καρποῦ τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος δώσουσιν αὐτῷ· οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν δείραντες κενόν.

Greek NT

Et in tempore misit ad cultores servum, ut de fructu vineæ darent illi. Qui cæsum dimiserunt eum inanem.

Vulgate

And at the season he sent unto 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.

ASV

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent him away empty.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γεωργός
georgos
noun · 19×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δέρω
dero
verb · 15×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
δοῦλος
doulos
noun · 124×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καιρός
kairos
noun · 85×
καρπός
karpos
noun · 66×
κενός
kenos
adjective · 18×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἀμπελών
ampelon
noun · 23×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐξαποστέλλω
exapostello
verb · 13×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ | RP: + ἐν
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἐνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: δώσουσιν | WH/Treg/NIV: δώσουσιν | RP: δῶσιν
  • δώσουσινSBLGNT
  • δώσουσινWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • δῶσινRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν δείραντες | WH/NIV: ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν δείραντες | Treg/RP: δείραντες αὐτὸν ἐξαπέστειλαν
  • ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν δείραντεςSBLGNT
  • ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν δείραντεςWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • δείραντες αὐτὸν ἐξαπέστειλανTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 36:15 — And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
  • Dan 9:6 — Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
  • Isa 5:2 — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should brin
  • Jer 7:25 — Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
  • Jer 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
  • Luke 13:6 — He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
  • Matt 21:34 — And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
  • Matt 21:34 — And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
  • Neh 9:26 — Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great prov