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Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

KJV

Ἄλλην παραβολὴν ἀκούσατε. ἄνθρωπος ἦν οἰκοδεσπότης ὅστις ἐφύτευσεν ἀμπελῶνα καὶ φραγμὸν αὐτῷ περιέθηκεν καὶ ὤρυξεν ἐν αὐτῷ ληνὸν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν πύργον, καὶ ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν.

Greek NT

Aliam parabolam audite : Homo erat paterfamilias, qui plantavit vineam, et sepem circumdedit ei, et fodit in ea torcular, et ædificavit turrim, et locavit eam agricolis, et peregre profectus est.

Vulgate

Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

ASV

Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γεωργός
georgos
noun · 19×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ληνός
lenos
noun · 5×
οἰκοδεσπότης
oikodespotes
noun · 12×
οἰκοδομέω
oikodomeo
verb · 41×
παραβολή
parabole
noun · 50×
περιτίθημι
peritithemi
verb · 8×
πύργος
purgos
noun · 4×
φραγμός
phragmos
noun · 4×
φυτεύω
phuteuo
verb · 11×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀμπελών
ampelon
noun · 23×
ἀποδημέω
apodemeo
verb · 6×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκδίδωμι
ekdidomi
verb · 4×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὀρύσσω
orusso
verb · 3×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Isa 5:1 · allusion
    "Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:"
    Isaiah: vineyard song — Jesus' parable of the wicked tenants

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Ἄνθρωπος | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἄνθρωπος | RP: + τις
  • ἌνθρωποςSBLGNT
  • ἌνθρωποςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + τιςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Parable

Historic Christian voices

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

§755"The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness…
The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent. 1. Which [God] the Lord does not reject, nor does He say that the prophets [spoke] from another god than His Father; nor from any other essence, but from one and the same Father; nor that any other being made the things in the world, except His own Father, when He speaks as follows in His teaching: …
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Do you see how He prophesies even the place where He was to be slain. And they cast Him out, and slew Him. And Luke indeed says, that He declared what these men should suffer; and they said, God forbid; and He added the testimony [of Scripture]. For He beheld them, and said, What is it then that is written? The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head …
2. He stopped not, however, at the rebuke, although it was enough merely to have convicted them of their purpose, and to have put them to shame for their wickedness; but He stops not at this, but in another way closes their mouths; for, Show me, says He, the tribute money. And when they had shown it, as He ever does, by their tongue He brings out the decision, and causes them t…
He said to me, "As I was fasting and seated on a certain mountain, and giving thanks to the Lord for all that He had done unto me, I see the shepherd seated beside me, and saying, Why hast thou come hither so early? Because, Sir, I said, I have a station." He said, "What is a station?" I replied, "I am fasting, Sir." He then said, "What sort of fast is this which ye are observi…
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
  • 2Tim 2:6 — The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
  • Ezek 19:10 — Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
  • Hos 4:1 — Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Isa 5:1 — Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
  • Isa 5:1 — Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
  • Isa 7:23 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
  • Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
  • Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • Luke 19:12 — He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
  • Luke 20:9 — Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • Luke 20:9 — Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • Mal 2:4 — And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Mark 12:8 — And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
  • Matt 13:24 — Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
  • Matt 20:1 — For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
  • Matt 21:28 — But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
  • Matt 25:14 — For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
  • Ps 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
  • Ps 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
  • Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Rom 10:21 — But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
  • Song 8:11 — Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.