Mattheüs 21:39

39 En hem nemende, wierpen zij hem uit, buiten de wijngaard, en doodden hem.

Mattheüs 21:39 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 21:39

And they caught him
Seized and laid hold of him, in a rude and violent manner, as they had some of the servants before. This regards their apprehending of Christ in the garden, by a band of soldiers and officers, sent by the chief priests and Pharisees, who with swords and staves took him, bound him, and led him away:

and cast him out of the vineyard;
which is not to be understood of their casting him out of the synagogue, which is never said of them; nor does it so much relate to the leading of him without the gates of Jerusalem, where they crucified him, though this is a sense not to be despised and rejected; but rather, to the delivery of him to those, that were without the vineyard of the Jewish church and nation, to the Gentiles; to be mocked, scourged, and put to death by them:

and slew him:
for though the sentence of death was pronounced on him by Pilate, an Heathen governor, and was executed by the Roman soldiers; yet it was through the instigation and at the pressing importunity of these husbandmen, the Jewish rulers; and who were afterwards frequently charged by the apostles with the murder of him.

Mattheüs 21:39 In-Context

37 En ten laatste zond hij tot hen zijn zoon, zeggende: Zij zullen mijn zoon ontzien.

38 Maar de landlieden, den zoon ziende, zeiden onder elkander: Deze is de erfgenaam, komt, laat ons hem doden, en zijn erfenis aan ons behouden.

39 En hem nemende, wierpen zij hem uit, buiten de wijngaard, en doodden hem.

40 Wanneer dan de heer des wijngaards komen zal, wat zal hij dien landlieden doen?

41 Zij zeiden tot hem: Hij zal den kwaden een kwaden dood aandoen, en zal den wijngaard aan andere landlieden verhuren, die hem de vruchten op haar tijden zullen geven.