Later, it was time for the grapes to be picked. So the man sent his servants to the farmers to get his share of the grapes.
Luke 20:16 - Easy To Read Version He will come and kill those farmers! Then he will lease the land to some other farmers.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He will come and [utterly] put an end to those tenants and will give the vineyard to others. When they [the chief priests and the scribes and the elders] heard this, they said, May it never be! American Standard Version (1901) He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. Common English Bible He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!” Catholic Public Domain Version "He will come and destroy those settlers, and he will give the vineyard to others." And upon hearing this, they said to him, "Let it not be." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid. |
Later, it was time for the grapes to be picked. So the man sent his servants to the farmers to get his share of the grapes.
The Jewish priests and leaders said, “He will surely kill those evil men. Then he will lease the land to some other farmers. He will lease it to farmers that will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
The king was very angry. The king sent his army to kill those people that killed his servants. And the army burned their city.
“So what will the man that owns the vineyard do? He will go to the vineyard and kill those farmers. Then he will lease the land to other farmers.
Now where are my enemies? Where are the people that did not want me to be king? Bring my enemies here and kill them. I will watch them die!’”
But Paul and Barnabas spoke very boldly. They said, “We must speak the message {\cf2\super [277]} of God to you Jews first. But you refuse to listen. You are making yourselves lost—not worthy of having eternal life! So we will now go to the people of other nations!
So I ask, “Did God throw out his people?” No! I myself am an Israelite (Jew). I am from the family of Abraham, {\cf2\super [114]} from the family group of Benjamin.
So I ask: When the Jews fell, did that fall destroy them? No! But their mistake brought salvation to the non-Jews. This happened to make the Jews jealous.
So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.
No! God will continue to be true even when every person is false. Like the Scriptures {\cf2\super [26]} say:
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace (kindness) and not under law? No!
No! We died to (quit living) our old sinful lives. So how can we continue living with sin?
Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! But sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like. It happened to show that sin is something very, very bad. And the command was used to show this.
You might think that I am saying that sin and the law {\cf2\super [54]} are the same thing. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin means. I would never have known what it means to want something wrong. But the law said, “You must not want \{things that belong to other people\}.” {\cf2\super [55]}
So what should we say about this? Is God not fair? We cannot say that.
Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join those parts to a prostitute {\cf2\super [37]} !
We Jews came to Christ to be made right with God. So it is clear that we were sinners too. Does this mean that Christ makes us sinners? No!
Does this mean that the law {\cf2\super [41]} is against God’s promises? No! If there was a law that could give life to people, then we could be made right by following law.
I hope I will never boast about things like that. The cross (death) of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for boasting. Through Jesus’ death on the cross the world is dead {\cf2\super [80]} to me; and I am dead to the world.