Matthew 21:39
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
KJV
καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν ἐξέβαλον ἔξω τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος καὶ ἀπέκτειναν.
Greek NT
Et apprehensum eum ejecerunt extra vineam, et occiderunt.
Vulgate
And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
ASV
And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and killed him.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
ἀμπελών
ampelon
noun · 23×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ἔξω
exo
adverb · 62×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Parable
Historic Christian voices
3 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…
Cross-references
- Acts 2:23 — Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Acts 3:14 — But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
- Acts 4:25 — Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
- Acts 7:52 — Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Jas 5:6 — Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
- John 18:12 — Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
- Luke 22:52 — Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
- Mark 12:8 — And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
- Matt 26:57 — And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.