Matius 21:21

21:21 Jesus ¹  answered them, “I tell you the truth, ²  if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

Matius 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ³  who planted a vineyard. ⁴  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ⁵  he leased it to tenant farmers ⁶  and went on a journey.

¹ tn Grk “And answering, Jesus said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.

² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

³ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

⁴ sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁶ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.