Matthew 21:45 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁵ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), they perceived that He was talking about them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ Now when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard the parable, they knew Jesus was talking about them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁵ And when the leaders of the priests, and the Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

Matthew 21:45 Cross References

Matthew 12:12

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”

Matthew 13:3

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 21:44

Matthew 21:46

But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.

Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.”

Luke 20:19

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.