Luke - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1132

LUKE.

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‘B1.Ess mm Kms comms m nm NAME 01* THB Lcnm; Peace from heaven, And majesty in the heights ! ’ 39 Some of the Pharisees, however, Teacher, 43 44 reprimand Your disciples} that

even if they were to be silent, the stones would shout out! Then, as He approached, seeing the

city, He wept on account of it; ex- Oh that you had known, even at last, in this your day, what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes; because the days shall come upon you, when your enemies shall rear a rampart about you, hem you in upon every side, and raze you to the ground, and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you would not re· cogmse the time for your preserva.— hans §§nrifgiug the @2mplz. 45 Then entering the temple, He be- 46 gan to drive out the dealers, saying It is written, MY House is A House or PRAYER;2 but you 8 have made it A new on ·m1nvns. 47 And in the temple He continued to teach daily. The chief priests, professors, and leading men, however, sought to murder Him; but they could not find an opportunity of eHecting it; because all the people hung upon Him with the greatest attention. Wbz Sczpiicz Qhngglzh. 80 One of those days, while He was teaching and evangelising the people in the temple, the chief priests and pro- fessors came to Him with the elders, and questioning Him, they asked, ‘ Tell us by what kind of authority You act; and who gave You that authority ‘I Myself will ask you one ques~

and you can answer Me 2 ' The baptism of john was it from heaven, or from men They accordingly discussed pri-

vately among themselves, saying, *‘ If we say • from heaven} He will ask, ‘ Why then did you not believe in him? ' But if we should say, ‘ from men,' K Psa. cxviii. 26. ’ Isa. lvl. 7. Jer. vii. xx. all the people will stone us: for they are firmly convinced that john was a They accordingly replied that they did not know from where, jesus

by what authority I gparaixlz uf the Qtxtzgarb. He also began to relate this parable

There was once a man who planted a vineyard, let it out to farmers, and went abroad for a long time. At the proper season, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they might pay him the rent of the vin wyard ; but the farmers dogged him, and sent him back with nothing. He then proceeded to send another servant; and him they also {logged, assaulted him disgracefully, and sent him back with nothing. And a third one being sent, they wounded him, and kicked him out! ‘ Then the owner of the vineyard,

upon reflection, said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my own dear son; perhaps, on seeing him, they will respect him. But the tenants, seeing him, consulted among themselves, saying, ‘ This is the heir; come on, let us murder him, so that the estate may become our own.’ Flinging him ac- cordingly out of the vineyard, they murdered him ! will

the owner of the vineyard do to IO II I2

‘He will come and execute those :6 tenants, and will give the vineyard to Never But gazing fixedly at 17 What then is this which is written ?-— THE STONE WHICH THB BUILDERS Rnjacrnb, HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR THE CHIEF Keystone} Every one falling over that Stone

will be bruised; but upon whoever it may fall, it will crush him to dust! QB1¤iiittg 3t·nztt·¤izh. The professors and the chief priests

then attempted to seize Him at that very moment; for they perceived that He had related this parable against themselves, yet they dreaded the people. Thenplotting, they sent spies, who 1 Psa. cxvlli. zu. II32 18 zo