Matius 21:33
Konteks21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner 1 who planted a vineyard. 2 He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then 3 he leased it to tenant farmers 4 and went on a journey.
Lukas 19:12
Konteks19:12 Therefore he said, “A nobleman 5 went to a distant country to receive 6 for himself a kingdom and then return. 7
[21:33] 1 tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.
[21:33] 2 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.
[21:33] 3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[21:33] 4 sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.
[19:12] 5 tn Grk “a man of noble birth” or “a man of noble status” (L&N 87.27).
[19:12] 6 sn Note that the receiving of the kingdom takes place in the far country. This suggests that those in the far country recognize and acknowledge the king when his own citizens did not want him as king (v. 14; cf. John 1:11-12).
[19:12] 7 sn The background to this story about the nobleman who went…to receive for himself a kingdom had some parallels in the area’s recent history: Archelaus was appointed ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea in 4