luke-20:1-19,-hebrews-2:1-4-niv

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:13

Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do! I will send my beloved son . The guilt of the husbandmen who acted as vine-dressers here reached its highest measure. The words represented here by Jesus as spoken by God, possess the deepest doctrinal value. They, under the thin veil of the parable-story, answer the question of the Sanhedrim ( Luke 20:2 ), "By what authority doest thou these things?" The deliberative words, "What shall I do?" recall the Divine dialogue alluded to in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:14

But when the husbandmen saw him; they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours . The husbandmen are represented as knowing the son and heir. Nor can we resist the conclusion that some at least of those grave learned men who sat in the Sanhedrim as priests or scribes well knew who the Speaker of the awful words claimed to be, and, in resisting him and seeking his destruction, were deliberately sinning against the voice of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:15-16

So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him . The parable-story of itself was an improbable one. The conduct of the husbandmen, the long patience of the owner of the vineyard, his last act in sending his beloved and only son, ― all this makes up a history without a parallel in human experience. Yet this is an exact sketch of what did actually take place in the eventful story of Israel! What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? He shall come and destroy these... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:16

Deprecation and doom. We may regard— I. THE FORCE OF THESE WORDS AS ORIGINALLY APPLIED . The people who listened to this parable: 1 . Deprecated a guilt in which they were to be partakers. "God forbid," said they, "that we should do such shameful things as these, that we should be in any way involved in such crimes as these! Whosesoever hands may be dyed with the blood of the Husbandman's Son, ours shall be stainless." Yet were they moving on to the last and worst... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:17

The rejection and exaltation of Christ. We look at— I. THE REJECTION OF JESUS CHRIST . Its strangeness. 1 . From an evidential point of view. How came the builders to reject that valuable Stone? How was it that all the miracles of Jesus, so wonderful, so beneficent, so simple, and so credible as they were; that the life of Jesus, so holy and so beautiful, so gracious and so winning as it was; that the truth spoken by Jesus, so profound, so original, so lofty, so... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:17-18

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then thai; is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. In spite of the deprecating expression, the severity of the tone of Jesus increases in his next words, when, looking at them with grave anger ( ἐμβλέψας ), he proceeds to speak of himself under the figure of the rejected stone.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:18

Contact and conflict with Christ. There is one thing which, as a stone or rock, Christ is willing and waiting to be to us; there is that also which, in spite of his own desire concerning us, we may compel him to be to us. I. THE ROCK ON WHICH WE MAY BUILD . 1 . Christ desires to be as the Corner-stone or Foundation-stone on which the whole structure of our character and of our destiny is resting. 2 . If we exercise a living faith in him, we shall find him to be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:19

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them . Again the Sanhedrim take counsel. They long to arrest him on some capital charge; but they dared not, for the people, joined by the Passover pilgrims, had exalted him to the rank of a hero. Not a few evidently looked on him at that period as King Messiah, But the feeling of the great council was intensely bitter. They... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:19-26

The sacred and the secular. There are three preliminary truths which may be gathered before considering the proper subject of the text. 1 . The worthlessness of heartless praise. What value do we suppose Jesus Christ attached to the eulogium here pronounced ( Luke 20:2 )? How worthless to him now are the epithets which are uttered or the praises which are sung by lips that are not sincere? 2 . The evil end of a false attitude toward Christ. The attitude of hostility which his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:1-8

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 21:23-27. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:15-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:17-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:19-26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:1-8

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