Mateo 21:39

39 Así que le echaron mano, lo arrojaron fuera del viñedo y lo mataron.

Mateo 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.

Mateo 21:39 In-Context

37 »Por último, les mandó a su propio hijo, pensando: “¡A mi hijo sí lo respetarán!”

38 Pero cuando los labradores vieron al hijo, se dijeron unos a otros: “Este es el heredero. Matémoslo, para quedarnos con su herencia”.

39 Así que le echaron mano, lo arrojaron fuera del viñedo y lo mataron.

40 »Ahora bien, cuando vuelva el dueño, ¿qué hará con esos labradores?

41 —Hará que esos malvados tengan un fin miserable —respondieron—, y arrendará el viñedo a otros labradores que le den lo que le corresponde cuando llegue el tiempo de la cosecha.