The people were startled at the conclusion of Jesus’ parable. They did not want to believe that God would allow his son to be killed by selfish and corrupt tenants and that, in response, he would kill the tenants and give the vineyard to someone else. The prophets often used a vineyard to represent Israel. […]
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Luke 20:14-16 is today’s BDBD. The Parable of the Tenants. #2.
Jesus’s “Parable of the Tenants” has the vineyard’s owner sending his son to collect his share of the harvest. The tenants recognize he is the heir and devised a plan to kill him and take the inheritance as their own. Greed and an evil sense of self-importance ruled their decision and the following action. Foolishness […]
Luke 20:9-13 is today’s BDBD. The Parable of the Tenants. #1.
After the religious elite challenged Jesus’ authority, he began teaching them in parables. One is recorded in all three Synoptic gospels: “The Parable of the Tenants” (Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12). They record that Jesus spoke this parable against them (19). The object is a man who planted a vineyard. The subject is the world’s most […]
