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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 21:33 - 21:33
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Mat 21:33-46. Parable of the wicked husbandmen.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard - (See on Luk 13:6).
and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower - These details are taken, as is the basis of the parable itself, from that beautiful parable of Isa 5:1-7, in order to fix down the application and sustain it by Old Testament authority.
and let it out to husbandmen - These are just the ordinary spiritual guides of the people, under whose care and culture the fruits of righteousness are expected to spring up.
and went into a far country - “for a long time” (Luk 20:9), leaving the vineyard to the laws of the spiritual husbandry during the whole time of the Jewish economy. On this phraseology, see on Mar 4:26.