02.01.2016 New Testament: Matt 21.35–37

To read the Bible in a year, read Matthew 21.23–46 on February 1, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

Jesus spoke a parable of a landowner who leased out his vineyard, and left. As the time for harvest arrived, the landowner sent servants to receive fruit,

“And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son’” (Matthew 21.35–37).

Incredibly the vinedressers persecuted, even to death, the servants whom the landowner sent. Then the landowner decided to send his son, hoping they would respect his son. As the rest of the parable shows, they killed the son with more zeal than they did the servants.

This illustrates the Father sending Jesus into the world, but rather than respecting His Son, they brutalized Him, and even today, many do not hesitate to blaspheme the God of heaven. The trouble that awaits them, unless they repent, cannot be described.