Mat 21:33-46 | Family | STEP | Householder ; this was designed to represent Jehovah. Husbandmen ; the Jewish nation.

Matthew 21:33-46

Householder; this was designed to represent Jehovah.

Husbandmen; the Jewish nation. His servants; the prophets and teachers of religion among the Jews, who called upon them to render to God his due. Beat one; this represented their treatment of his prophets. His son; the Lord Jesus Christ, who was then addressing them, and whom they would kill. Slew him; Mt 27:35. The lord; the owner of all things.

Those husbandmen; the Jews. Other husbandmen; the blessings which they received and abused he would give to others. The greater the privileges of men, if they do not improve them, the greater will be their guilt; and without repentance and pardon, through faith in the Redeemer, the more awful will be their ruin. In the scriptures; Ps 118:22,23. This was a prophecy of the truths and events represented in the parable, which were about to be fulfilled in the crucifixion of Christ, the casting off of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles into the church of God.

The stone; the Lord Jesus Christ.

The builders; the Jews, and especially their leaders, the scribes and Pharisees. You; Jews.

A nation; the Gentiles. This stone; Jesus Christ. Whosoever should stumble at his lowly appearance, or the matter and manner of his teaching, would greatly suffer.

It shall fall; those who against light should continue to oppose him, and on whom his righteous indignation should fall, would be destroyed with an awful destruction. Sought to lay hands on him; for the purpose of destroying him, as the Scriptures, and as he in this parable, had foretold that they would.