John Gill's Exposition on Luke 20:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And at the season, etc.] Or “when it the time of fruit”, as the Ethiopic version renders it, agreeably to (see Gill on “<402134>Matthew 21:34”): he sent a servant to the husbandmen; or servants, as in (<402134>Matthew 21:34); the prophets of the Lord, his messengers, whom he sent to them, to exhort them to bring forth the fruits of righteousness, as follows: that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; that is, that they, bringing forth good fruit in their lives and conversations, whereby it might appear that they were trees of righteousness, and the planting of the Lord; he, or they observing them, might give an account of them to the Lord, to the glory of his name: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty; the Jews not only mocked these messengers of the Lord, and despised their words, but misused them, (<143615>2 Chronicles 36:15,16) they beat them with their fists, smote them on the cheek, and scourged them with scourges; so that they had no account to give of their fruitfulness in good works, but the contrary; (see Gill on “<402135>Matthew 21:35”) and (see Gill on “<411203>Mark 12:3”).

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