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?
Matthew 21:37 - English Standard Version 2016 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son. American Standard Version (1901) But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. Common English Bible Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. Catholic Public Domain Version Then, at the very end, he sent his son to them, saying: 'They will revere my son.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son. |
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.”
I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.