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Selected Verse: Luke 20:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 20:13 |
King James |
Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my beloved son--Mark (Mar 12:6) still more affectingly, "Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved"; our Lord thus severing Himself from all merely human messengers, and claiming Sonship in its loftiest sense. (Compare Heb 3:3-6.)
it may be--"surely"; implying the almost unimaginable guilt of not doing so. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
It may be (ἴσως)
Only here in New Testament. The adverb of ἴσος, equal. It expresses more than perhaps, implying rather a strong probability. Compare the phrase, it is an even chance that.
Reverence
See on Mat 21:37. |
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.