Matthew 21:41

Contemporary English Version 1995

The chief priests and leaders answered, “He will kill them in some horrible way. Then he will rent out his vineyard to people who will give him his share of grapes at harvest time.”

Cross References

Acts 18:6

Finally, they turned against him and insulted him. So he shook the dust from his clothes and told them, “Whatever happens to you will be your own fault! I am not to blame. From now on I am going to preach to the Gentiles.”

Matthew 21:43

I tell you God's kingdom will be taken from you and given to people who will do what he demands.

Acts 28:28

Paul said, “You may be sure that God wants to save the Gentiles! And they will listen.”

Hebrews 12:25

Make sure you obey the one who speaks to you. The people did not escape, when they refused to obey the one who spoke to them at Mount Sinai. Do you think you can possibly escape, if you refuse to obey the one who speaks to you from heaven?

Hebrews 2:3

So if we refuse this great way of being saved, how can we hope to escape? The Lord himself was the first to tell about it, and people who heard the message proved to us that it was true.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

They keep us from speaking his message to the Gentiles and from leading them to be saved. They have always gone too far with their sins. Now God has finally become angry and will punish them.

Acts 28:8

His father was in bed, sick with fever and stomach trouble, and Paul went to visit him. Paul healed the man by praying and placing his hands on him.

Acts 15:7

They had talked it over for a long time, when Peter got up and said: My friends, you know that God decided long ago to let me be the one from your group to preach the good news to the Gentiles. God did this so they would hear and obey him.

Matthew 3:12

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.

Zechariah 13:8

Nowhere in the land will more than a third of them be left alive.

Zechariah 12:12

Everyone of each family in the land will mourn, and the men will mourn separately from the women. This includes those from the family of David, and the families of Nathan,

Daniel 9:26

At the end of the 62 weeks, the Chosen Leader will be killed and left with nothing. A foreign ruler and his army will sweep down like a mighty flood, leaving both the city and the temple in ruins, and war and destruction will continue until the end, just as God has decided.

Psalm 2:9

You will smash them with an iron rod and shatter them like dishes of clay.”

Isaiah 65:15

I, the Lord God, promise to see that you are killed and that my chosen servants use your names as curse words. But I will give new names to my servants.

Matthew 21:34

When it was harvest time, the owner sent some servants to get his share of the grapes.

Matthew 21:40

Jesus asked, “When the owner of that vineyard comes, what do you suppose he will do to those renters?”

Luke 20:16

I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.” When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”