What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
Matthew 21:37 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
It may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
I said, “Surely the city will fear me, it will accept correction; it will not lose sight of all that I have brought upon it.” But they were the more eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’
And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, the Beloved, 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. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.