Luke 20:16
New International Version
He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”

New Living Translation
“I’ll tell you—he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others.” “How terrible that such a thing should ever happen,” his listeners protested.

English Standard Version
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”

Berean Standard Bible
He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”

Berean Literal Bible
He will come and will destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." And having heard it, they said, "Never may it be!"

King James Bible
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

New King James Version
He will come and destroy those vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.” And when they heard it they said, “Certainly not!”

New American Standard Bible
He will come and put these vine-growers to death, and will give the vineyard to others.” However, when they heard this, they said, “May it never happen!”

NASB 1995
“He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

NASB 1977
“He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” And when they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

Legacy Standard Bible
He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “May it never be!”

Amplified Bible
He will come and put these tenants to death and will give the vineyard to others.” When the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders heard this, they said, “May it never be!”

Christian Standard Bible
He will come and kill those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” But when they heard this they said, “That must never happen! ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” But when they heard this they said, “No—never!”

American Standard Version
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“He shall come and destroy those workers, and he shall give the vineyard to others”; but when they heard, they said, “May this not be!”

Contemporary English Version
I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard." When the people heard this, they said, "This must never happen!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

English Revised Version
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will destroy these workers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That's unthinkable!"

Good News Translation
"He will come and kill those men, and turn the vineyard over to other tenants." When the people heard this, they said, "Surely not!"

International Standard Version
He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"

Literal Standard Version
He will come, and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” And having heard, they said, “Let it not be!”

Majority Standard Bible
He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”

New American Bible
He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they exclaimed, “Let it not be so!”

NET Bible
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

New Revised Standard Version
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”

New Heart English Bible
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be."

Webster's Bible Translation
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.

Weymouth New Testament
He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.

World English Bible
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

Young's Literal Translation
He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, May such a thing never happen!” 17But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?…

Cross References
Matthew 21:34
When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

Matthew 21:41
"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time."

Mark 12:9
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.

Luke 19:27
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.'"

Luke 20:15
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge."

Romans 3:6
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?


Treasury of Scripture

He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

destroy.

Luke 19:27
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

Psalm 2:8,9
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession…

Psalm 21:8-10
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee…

shall give.

Nehemiah 9:36,37
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: …

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Luke 20
1. Jesus confirms his authority by a question of John's baptism.
9. The parable of the vineyard.
19. Of giving tribute to Caesar.
27. He instructs the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection.
41. How Jesus is the Son of David.
45. He warns his disciples to beware of the scribes.














(16) He shall come and destroy these husbandmen.--St. Luke agrees with St. Mark in putting these words into our Lord's lips, and not, as St. Matthew does, into those of the by-standers.

They said, God forbid.--No other English phrase could well be substituted for this, but it is worth remembering that the name of God does not appear in the original, and that the ejaculation is simply, as it were, a negative Amen, "So be it not." Its insertion hero is peculiar to St. Luke, nor does it occur elsewhere in the Gospels. St. Paul uses it frequently, as in Romans 3:4; Romans 3:6; Romans 3:31; Romans 6:2; Romans 6:15, et al. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
He will come
ἐλεύσεται (eleusetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

kill
ἀπολέσει (apolesei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 622: From apo and the base of olethros; to destroy fully, literally or figuratively.

those
τούτους (toutous)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

tenants,
γεωργοὺς (geōrgous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1092: From ge and the base of ergon; a land-worker, i.e. Farmer.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

will give
δώσει (dōsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

vineyard
ἀμπελῶνα (ampelōna)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 290: A vineyard. From ampelos; a vineyard.

to others.”
ἄλλοις (allois)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.

And
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

[when the people] heard [this],
Ἀκούσαντες (Akousantes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

they said,
εἶπαν (eipan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“May such a thing never happen!”
γένοιτο (genoito)
Verb - Aorist Optative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.


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