Matthäus 21:45

45 Und als die Hohenpriester und die Pharisäer seine Gleichnisse gehört hatten, erkannten sie, daß er von ihnen rede.

Matthäus 21:45 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 21:45

And when the chief priests and Pharisees
Which latter, though not before mentioned, were many of them of the grand sanhedrim, as well as the chief priests, scribes, and elders: "had heard his parables"; that of the two sons being sent into the vineyard, and that of the letting out the vineyard to husbandmen,

they perceived that he spake of them:
they plainly saw that they were designed by the son, that promised to go into the vineyard, but did not; only talked of works, but did not do them: and that they were the husbandmen that acted the ungrateful part to the householder, and the cruel one to his servants, and would to his son, their own consciences told them they were the men. They knew that the whole was levelled against them, and designed for them, and exactly hit their case.

Matthäus 21:45 In-Context

43 Deswegen sage ich euch: Das Reich Gottes wird von euch weggenommen und einer Nation gegeben werden, welche dessen Früchte bringen wird.
44 Und wer auf diesen Stein fällt, wird zerschmettert werden; aber auf welchen irgend er fallen wird, den wird er zermalmen.
45 Und als die Hohenpriester und die Pharisäer seine Gleichnisse gehört hatten, erkannten sie, daß er von ihnen rede.
46 Und als sie ihn zu greifen suchten, fürchteten sie die Volksmengen, denn sie hielten ihn für einen Propheten.
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