Matthew 21:37 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁷ Then later on he sent his own son to the tenant farmers, saying, ‘[Surely] they will treat my son with respect.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ Then, at the very end, he sent his son to them, saying: 'They will revere my son.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son.

Matthew 21:37 Cross References

Matthew 21:36

The owner of the farm then sent additional slaves and they were treated the same way.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir [to the vineyard]. Come on; let us kill him so we can take over his inheritance.’

Matthew 3:17

Then a voice came out of heaven, saying, “This is my dearly loved Son. I am very pleased with Him.”

Mark 12:6

The owner had one more person [left to send], his dearly loved son. [So] he sent him to them last of all, reasoning to himself, ‘[Surely] they will treat my son with respect.’

Luke 20:13

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do [about this]? I will send my dearly loved son. Hopefully, they will treat him with respect.’

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God [i.e., His full splendor], but God, the only conceived [and eventually born Son], who is at the Father’s side, has shown us who He is.

John 1:34

And I have seen and given testimony that this person is the Son of God.”

John 3:16

For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.