MAT 21:38 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they thought, ‘Hey, this is the heir of the estate. If we kill him, then the inheritance will be ours.’

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT But the farmers, having seen the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’

UST However, when the people who were taking care of the vineyard saw the man’s son arriving, they told each other, ‘This man is the one who will inherit the vineyard. We should kill him, and then we can take the vineyard for ourselves.’

BSB § But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

BLB But the farmers having seen the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and gain possession of his inheritance.'

AICNT But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and {obtain}[fn] his inheritance.’

21:38, obtain: Later manuscripts read “seize.”

OEB But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other “Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.”

WEBBE But the farmers, when they saw the son, said amongst themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’

WMBB (Same as above)

NET But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

LSV and the farmers having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

FBV But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to each other, ‘Here's the heir! Come on! Let's kill him so we can take his inheritance!’

TCNT But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’

T4T But when the renters saw his son arriving, they said to each other, ‘This is the man who will inherit this vineyard! Let’s kill him and divide the property among ourselves.’

LEB But when[fn] the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance!’

21:38 *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal

BBE But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

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Wymth "But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said to one another, "`Here is the heir: come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.'

ASV But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.

DRA But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

YLT and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

Drby But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.

RV But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.

Wbstr But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

KJB-1769 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

KJB-1611 [fn]But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they said among themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and let vs sease on his inheritance.
(But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heire, come, let us kill him, and let us sease on his inheritance.)

21:38 Chap. 26.3. iohn. 11.53.

Bshps But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce.
(But when the husband men saw the son, they said among themselves: this is the heire, come, let us kill him, and let us enioy his inheritance.)

Gnva But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.
(But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heire: come, let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance. )

Cvdl But whe the hussbandme sawe the sonne, they sayde amonge the selues: This is the Heyre, come, let us kyl hym, and take his inheritauce vnto oure selues.
(But when the hussbandme saw the son, they said among the selves: This is the Heyre, come, let us kyl him, and take his inheritauce unto our selves.)

TNT But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amonge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.
(But when the husbandmen saw the son they said among the selves: This is the heyre: come let us kill him and let us take his inheritance to our selves. )

Wycl But the erthe tilieris, seynge the sone, seiden with ynne hem silf, This is the eire; come ye, sle we hym, and we schulen haue his eritage.
(But the earth tilieris, seeing the son, said within them silf, This is the eire; come ye/you_all, slay/kill we him, and we should have his eritage.)

Luth Da aber die Weingärtner den Sohn sahen, sprachen sie untereinander: Das ist der Erbe; kommt, laßt uns ihn töten und sein Erbgut an uns bringen!
(So but the Weingärtner the son saw, said they/she/them untereinander: The is the/of_the Erbe; kommt, laßt us/to_us/ourselves him/it töten and his Erbgut at us/to_us/ourselves bringen!)

ClVg Agricolæ autem videntes filium dixerunt intra se: Hic est hæres, venite, occidamus eum, et habebimus hæreditatem ejus.[fn]
(Agricolæ however videntes son dixerunt intra se: Hic it_is hæres, venite, occidamus him, and habebimus inheritance his. )

21.38 Hic est hæres. Patet principes sacerdotum non per ignorantiam, sed per invidiam occidisse Jesum, cum scirent eum esse, cui dicitur: Postula a me, et dabo tibi gentes hæreditatem tuam Psal. 2.; unde et consulentes sibi aiebant: Si dimittimus eum sic Joan. 2., etc. Habebimus hæreditatem. Hæreditas Christi quam resurgens possedit, Ecclesia est, quam moliebantur præripere Judæi: dum fide ejus exstincta justitiam quæ ex lege est, gentibus persuadere conabantur.

21.38 Hic it_is hæres. Patet principes sacerdotum not/no through ignorantiam, but through invidiam occidisse Yesum, when/with scirent him esse, cui it_is_said: Postula from me, and dabo to_you gentes inheritance tuam Psal. 2.; whence and consulentes sibi aiebant: When/But_if dimittimus him sic Yoan. 2., etc. Habebimus inheritance. Hæreditas of_Christ how resurgens possedit, Ecclesia it_is, how moliebantur præripere Yudæi: dum fide his exstincta justitiam which from lege it_is, nations persuadere conabantur.

UGNT οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες τὸν υἱὸν, εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος; δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτὸν καὶ σχῶμεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ.
(hoi de geōrgoi idontes ton huion, eipon en heautois, houtos estin ho klaʸronomos; deute, apokteinōmen auton kai sⱪōmen taʸn klaʸronomian autou.)

SBL-GNT οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες τὸν υἱὸν εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος· δεῦτε ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτὸν καὶ ⸀σχῶμεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ·
(hoi de geōrgoi idontes ton huion eipon en heautois; Houtos estin ho klaʸronomos; deute apokteinōmen auton kai ⸀sⱪōmen taʸn klaʸronomian autou;)

TC-GNT Οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες τὸν υἱὸν εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος· δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτόν, καὶ [fn]κατάσχωμεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ.
(Hoi de geōrgoi idontes ton huion eipon en heautois, Houtos estin ho klaʸronomos; deute, apokteinōmen auton, kai katasⱪōmen taʸn klaʸronomian autou. )

21:38 κατασχωμεν ¦ σχωμεν CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες τὸν υἱὸν

the but tenant_farmers /having/_seen the son

Here Jesus implies that the son traveled to the vineyard, after which the farmers saw him. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [Then the son arrived at the vineyard. But the farmers, having seen him]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος; δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτὸν καὶ σχῶμεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ

said among themselves this is the heir come ˱we˲_/may/_kill_off him and ˱we˲_/may/_have the inheritance ˱of˲_him

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [said among themselves that this man was the heir and that they should come and kill him and have his inheritance]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐν ἑαυτοῖς

among themselves

Here, the phrase among themselves could mean: (1) that the farmers were speaking with each other. Alternate translation: [to one another] (2) that the farmers were thinking this without saying it. Alternate translation: [within themselves]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / go

δεῦτε

come

In a context such as this, your language might say “Go” instead of Come. Alternate translation: [Go]

Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal

καὶ

and

Here, the word and introduces the purpose for which the farmers plan to kill the son. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces a purpose. Alternate translation: [in order that we might]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ

the inheritance ˱of˲_him

Here the farmers are referring primarily to the vineyard, which would be the son’s inheritance. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [his inheritance, this vineyard]

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ

the inheritance ˱of˲_him

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of inheritance, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [what he will inherit]

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