Matthew 21:39

39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Matthew 21:39 in Other Translations

39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

39 So they grabbed him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.

39 They grabbed him, threw him out, and killed him.

39 And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.

39 So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

39 So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard. Then they killed him.

Matthew 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.

Matthew 21:39 In-Context

37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”