When harvest time came near, he sent his servants to the tenants to receive his fruit.
Luke 20:16 - Y'all Version Bible He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May that never be!” 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. |
When harvest time came near, he sent his servants to the tenants to receive his fruit.
They told him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will lease out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the proceeds at harvest time.”
“The king was enraged! He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and burn down their city.
What then will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
But those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be king over them—y’all bring them and kill them in front of me.’”
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to y’all first. Since indeed y’all reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the ethnic groups.
I ask then, did God reject ʜɪꜱ people? Absolutely not! For I, too, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the ethnic groups, to make them jealous.
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.
Absolutely not! Yes, let God be found true, but every human a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might conquer when you come into judgment.”
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known forbidden desire unless the law had said, “You must not covet.”
What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
Don’t y’all know that y’all’s bodies are members of Christ? Should I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, does that mean Christ is a deacon of sin? Certainly not!
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been based on the law.
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.