What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
Luke 20:13 - English Standard Version 2016 Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it is probable that they will respect him. American Standard Version (1901) And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will reverence him. Common English Bible The owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I’ll send my son, whom I love dearly. Perhaps they will respect him.’ Catholic Public Domain Version Then the lord of the vineyard said: 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps when they have seen him, they will respect him.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be, when they see him, they will reverence him. |
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”
As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’
And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!”
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,