Search results for: Matthieu 22.37-39
Matthew 21:32 (NIV)
For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Matthew 21:33 (NIV)
“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
Matthew 21:34 (NIV)
When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
Matthew 21:35 (NIV)
“The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 21:36 (NIV)
Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
Matthew 21:37 (NIV)
Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
Matthew 21:38 (NIV)
“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.’
Matthew 21:39 (NIV)
So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Matthew 21:40 (NIV)
“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
Matthew 21:41 (NIV)
“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.”
Matthew 21:42 (NIV)
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’ ?
Matthew 21:43 (NIV)
“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
Matthew 21:44 (NIV)
Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Matthew 21:45 (NIV)
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.
Matthew 21:46 (NIV)
They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
Matthew 22:1 (NIV)
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
Matthew 22:2 (NIV)
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
Matthew 22:3 (NIV)
He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
Matthew 22:4 (NIV)
“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
Matthew 22:5 (NIV)
“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.
Matthew 22:6 (NIV)
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
Matthew 22:7 (NIV)
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Matthew 22:8 (NIV)
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Matthew 22:9 (NIV)
So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
Matthew 22:10 (NIV)
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.