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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 into a far country, Mark xii. 1. 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 xx. 9. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman, John xv. 1. c The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat, Matt. xxiii. 2.

d 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. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey, Matt. xxv. 14, 15. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch, Mark xiii. 34. He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return, Luke xix. 12.

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Οτε δὲ ἤγγισεν ὁ καιρὸς τῶν καρπῶν, ἀπέστειλε τοὺς δούλους αὑτοῦ πρὸς τοὺς γεωργούς, λαβεῖν τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτοῦ.

And when the time of the fruit drew near, a he sent his servants to the husbandmen, b that they might receive the fruit of it.

a Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God, 2 Kings xvii. 13, 14. 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: But they mocked

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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, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck,, and would not hear. Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit in thy prophets : yet would they not give ear therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands, Neh. ix. 29, 30. From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early.and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you, and to your fathers for ever and ever: And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to and I will do you no hurt. Yet ye have anger with the works of hands; not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt, Jer. xxv.3-7. I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me, xxxv. 15. Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Be not as your fathers, unto whom the former

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prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us, Zech. i. 3-6. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts, vii. 9-13. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him and beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. And again be sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some, Mark xii. 2-5. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard but the husbandman beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Then said the lord

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of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's. So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. And he beheld them and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

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Scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them, Luke xx. 10-19.

b Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one to the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred, Cant. viii. 11, 12. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Isa. v. 4.

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how can ye escape the damnation of went into Egypt; And Jehoiakim the hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto king sent men into Egypt, namely, you prophets, and wise men, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and cerscribes and some of them ye shall tain men with him into Egypt. And kill and crucify; and some of them they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the and persecute them from city to city, king; who slew him with the sword, xxiii. 31-34. For it was so, when and cast his dead body into the graves Jezebel cut off the prophets of the of the common people. NevertheLORD, that Obadiah took an hundred less, the hand of Ahikam the son of prophets, and hid them by fifty in a Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that cave, and fed them with bread and they should not give him into the water, 1 Kings xviii. 4. Was it not hand of the people to put him to told my lord what I did when Jezebel death, xxvi. 21-24. Nevertheless I slew the prophets of the LORD: how I must walk to day, and to morrow, and hid an hundred men of the LORD's the day following: for it cannot be prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed that a prophet perish out of Jerusathem with bread and water? 13. lem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto killest the prophets, and stonest them Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to that are sent unto thee; how often me, and more also, if I make not thy would I have gathered thy children life as the life of one of them by to- together, as a hen doth gather her morrow about this time, xix. 2. And brood under her wings, and ye would he said, I have been very jealous for not, Luke xiii. 33, 34. Which of the the LORD God of hosts: for the chil- prophets have not your fathers perdren of Israel have forsaken thy cove- secuted? and they have slain them nant, thrown down thine altars, and which shewed before of the coming of slain thy prophets with the sword; the Just One; of whom ye have been and I, even I only, am left; and they now the betrayers and murderers, seek my life, to take it away, 10. Acts vii. 52. Who both killed the But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, went near, and smote Micaiah on and have persecuted us; and they the cheek, and said, Which way please not God, and are contrary to went the Spirit of the LORD from me all men: Forbidding us to speak to to speak unto thee? xxii. 24. Then the Gentiles, that they might be saved, Asa was wroth with the seer, and to fill up their sins alway; for the put him in a prison house; for he was wrath is come upon them to the utin a rage with him, because of this termost, 1 Thes. ii. 15, 16. And thing. And Asa oppressed some of the others had trial of cruel mockings and people the same time, 2 Chron. xvi. scourgings; yea, moreover of bonds 10. And the LORD God of their fa- and imprisonment: They were stoned, thers sent to them by his messengers, they were sawn asunder, were temptrising up betimes, and sending; be-ed, were slain with the sword: they cause he had compassion on his peo- wandered about in sheepskins and ple, and on his dwelling place: But goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, they mocked the messengers of God, tormented, Heb. xi. 36, 37. and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy, xxxvi. 15, 16. In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets like a destroying lion, Jer. ii. 30. And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death, but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and

VER. 36.

Πάλιν ἀπέστειλεν ἄλλους δούλους πλεί ονας τῶν πρώτων· καὶ ἐποίησαν αὐτοῖς ὡσαύτως.

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.

VER. 37.

Ὕστερον δὲ ἀπέστειλε πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὸν υἱὸν αὑτοῦ, λέγων· Ἐντραπήσονται τὸν υἱόν μov.

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Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son, Mark xii. 6. Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him, Luke xx. 13. b What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth_grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Isa. v. 4. It may be, that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I forgive their iniquity, and their sin, Jer. xxxvi. 3. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction, so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings, Zeph. iii. 7.

VER. 38.

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Οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες τὸν υἱὸν, εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος, δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτὸν, καὶ κατάσχωμεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ.

But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, a This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

a Then assembled together the Chief Priests, and the Scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him, Matt. xxvi. 3, 4. When the morning was come, all the Chief Priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor, xxvii. 1, 2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and

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vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion, I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession, Psal. ii. 2—

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But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's. And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard, Mark xii. 7, 8. But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's, Luke xx. 14. Then gathered the Chief Priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the High Priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole he not of himself: but being High nation perish not. And this spake Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death, John xi. 47-53. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done, Acts iv. 27, 28. Now when the High Priest and the captains of the temple and the Chief Priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. Then came one and told them, saying, Behold the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without

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violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the High Priest asked them, saying, Did not we straitly command you, that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us, v. 24-28.

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young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. And they led Jesus away to the High Priest: and with him were assembled all the Chief Priests and the elders and the scribes, Mark xiv. 46-53. 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

Καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν, ἐξέβαλον ἔξω τοῦ against a thief, with swords and ἀμπελῶνος, καὶ ἀπέκτειναν.

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a And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the High Priest, and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and filed. And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, where the Scribes and the elders were assembled, Matt. xxvi. 50-57. And they laid their hands on him, and took him. And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the High Priest, and cut off his ear. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the Scriptures must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, and fled. And there followed him a certain

staves? When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the High Priest's house. And Peter followed afar off, Luke xxii. 52-54. Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, John xviii. 12. Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the High Priest, 24. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, Acts ii. 23.

b For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach, Heb. xiii. 11-13.

c Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, Acts ii. 23. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses, iii. 14, 15. Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole, iv. 10. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree, v. 30. Which of the prophets have not your

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