S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

The Parable of the Vineyard appears in three of the gospels (Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19), with Matthew's account being the most complete. However, there are additions in the other...

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Vlady Blyznyuk Supporter

The farmers represent the people who have rejected him. The land owner is God. The first three servants he sent were Christians. The next group was also Christians. The the son is jesus. After they kill jesus. The terrible death is those people being thrown into hell

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Philip Farris Supporter Nondenominational New Testament Teacher

Matthew 20 seems to be talking to different people and addressing a different question than the other 2 parables. The labourers in the vineyard, could be taken as saying that everyone will have the same reward in heaven, the same penny a day. However, there are a couple of problems with thinking that Matt 20 is talking about our reward in heaven.

1.	Jesus was not talking about eternity when he was talking about the labourers in the vineyard. He was talking about the present and he was talking to his disciples who were entering the ministry and following His instructions in Matt 10. 

Originally, the books in the Bible were written more like letters are written, with thoughts kept together in paragraphs, etc. When all of the old letters and books were compiled into “the Bible” they were divided up into chapter and verses. This makes it easier for study, but the books weren’t originally written that way.

For the most part, the translators did a good job of keeping like thoughts and stories together. Unfortunately, they didn’t start Matt 20 at the beginning of the subject of the labourers. That story actually begins with Peters question in Matt. 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? 

2.	The next problem with thinking that the labourers in the vineyard is about heaven is that there won’t be the heat of the sun in heaven. We may still be working in some form in heaven but it won’t be under the heat of this sun. Rev. 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Rev. 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. Rev. 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 

3.	Another danger of thinking that the reward will be the same for everyone in heaven is that the Devil would tell us to enjoy the world while we’re young and serve God when we get old and can’t enjoy the world any more anyway. That’s taking quite a risk because we might not live to that age and we would be depriving ourselves of the joy of walking in God’s way all of our life. But, mainly, we would be limiting the reward we could be laying up in heaven to enjoy in addition to, above and beyond, the gift of salvation.

So, it seems very likely that Jesus was continuing his answer to Peter when he told the labourers in the vineyard story. If that’s the case, then Matt 20 should have started at Matt 19:27.

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Doreen Lovell Supporter Evangelist and Prayer Intercessor

Matthew 21:33-46 This parable is aimed at the nation of Israel. 

Matt. 21:33-39 The householder represents God the Father and the vineyard is Israel. The husbandmen were the priests and religious leaders and the far country is heaven. The anticipated fruit represents spiritual evidence of true conversion, which was to be the end results of the work of the husbandmen. The servants sent by the the owner represents the Old Testament prophets who came to correct religious abuses in the nation and were rejected.Last of all indicates that Jesus was God's final emissary to Israel. None has appeared since and none will until the Jews recognize Jesus as their Messiah.In verse 39 Jesus clearly foretells His coming rejection and death.

Verses 40-43-- The other husbandmen are the Gentiles. He warned them that the kingdom will be taken from them but then within the warning of this judgement, Jesus offers mercy to those fall upon Him in repentance and faith.

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Daniel Veler Supporter

Your question: What is the meaning of the Parable of the Vineyard?

To understand this parable or any other you must be a child of God. Parables hide the truth from the lost. 

A parable is the hidden mysteries of the Kingdom of God. 

Matthew 23:10: “And the disciples came, and said unto him, 'Why speakest thou unto them in parables?' He answered and said unto them, 'Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.'”

You must view the parables through the eyes of the Holy Spirit in order to understand them.

Here is the parable with its meaning. Luke 20:19:
“And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him (Christ), and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them”. “Then began he (Christ) to speak to the people this parable; A certain man (the Father) planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen (the leaders of Israel), and went into a far country for a long time. And at the season he sent a servant (a prophet) to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen (the leaders of Israel) beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another servant (a prophet), and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Then said the lord of the vineyard (meaning the Father), 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son (Christ): it may be they will reverence him when they see him.' But when the husbandmen (leaders of Israel) saw him (Christ), they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him (they crucified Christ). What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? He shall come and destroy these husbandmen (the house of Israel was cut off) and shall give the vineyard to others (the Gentiles).”
 

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