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Home Matthew 21:33-43,45-46 NRSVue

Matthew 21:33-43,45-46 NRSVue

33“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away. 34When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them in the same way. 37Then he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’ 39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”

42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’?

43“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruits.

45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.

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Reflection on Matthew 21:33-43,45-46

Inspiration from 2026-03-06 Daily Prayer

When the landowner sent his son to collect the rent owed by the tenants, the young man was treated disgracefully and finally killed. So too with Jesus, when the Father showed great generosity by sending him to us. Yet God was able to do great things out of the maltreatment meted out to his son. The cross, the tree of death, allowed God to reveal the extent of his goodness to us all.