Luke 20:14

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

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κληρονομία

klēronomía

G2817

“inheritance”

Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine

Appears 14× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 21:38

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: from G2818

TDNT: 15:47,4

1. an inheritance, property received (or to be received) by inheritance 2. what is given to one as a possession a. the eternal blessedness of the consummated kingdom of God which is to be expected after the visible return of Christ b. the share which an individual will have in that eternal blessedness

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

20: words
17: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is κληρονομία inheritance G2817 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

κληρονομία inheritance G2817 occurs in 14 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

οἱ the G3588 ×3
αὐτὸν he G846 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 20:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Hebrews 1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Genesis 37:18–20 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
Psalms 2:1–6 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psalms 2:8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, The uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
Psalms 89:27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Matthew 2:2–16 "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
Matthew 16:7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."

Matthew 21:25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Matthew 27:21–25 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"
Luke 19:47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
Luke 20:5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
Luke 20:19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 22:2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
John 11:47–50 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
Acts 2:23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Acts 3:15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

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Where the printed editions differ

1 variant

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Extra text

δεῦτε

“come”

In TRByz Not in NA28NA27TynSBLWHTreg

δεῦτε (deute) 'come' is only in traditional manuscripts (TR+Byz)

Textual data: Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible TAGNT) · CC BY 4.0.

Commentary

Notes on Luke 20:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

20:14 Let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves! They believed that killing the heir would give them power over the estate. They foolishly failed to realize that the owner was still alive and would demand justice. Similarly, the religious leaders thought that they could keep their authority over the people of Israel by killing Jesus.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Bengel's Gnomon

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Luk 20:14. Λέγοντες, saying) The Scripture in weighty and true language expresses (portrays) the actual and real mind of men, which they themselves often do not think to be so bad as it is. Comp. Luk 20:16 [They said, “God forbid”]. God, who estimates things by the truth, and men, who habitually flatter themselves, weigh sins in very different scales.—ἀποκτείνωμεν, let us kill) Ch. Luk 19:47.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

reasoned among themselves--(Compare Gen 37:18-20; Joh 11:47-53).

the heir--sublime expression of the great truth, that God's inheritance was destined for, and in due time to come into the possession of, His Son in our nature (Heb 1:2).

inheritance . . . ours--and so from mere servants we may become lords; the deep aim of the depraved heart, and literally "the root of all evil."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. that the inheritance may be ours] “His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,” Heb_1:2. Comp. Joh_11:47-53. “They killed that they might possess, and because they killed they lost.” Aug.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen,.... Which had its accomplishment at the destruction of Jerusalem: according to the other evangelists, these words are the answer of the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to the above questions put to them by Christ, after he had delivered the parable; but here they seem to be the words of Christ, who also said the same, and confirmed what they had observed, and could not but own, that it was just and right, and what might be expected, with what follows:

and shall give the vineyard to others; the land of Judea to the Romans in particular, and the church state, with the Gospel and ordinances of it, to the Gentiles in general, sometimes called "others"; See Gill on Luk 5:29 and See Gill on Luk 18:11.

and when they heard it, they said, God forbid; though they were their own words, yet repeated and confirmed by Christ, and perceiving that they were the persons intended, deprecate the fulfilment of them; at least so far as they understood they related to the killing of the Messiah, and to the destruction of their nation, city, and temple.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

But when the husbandmen saw him; they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. The husbandmen are represented as knowing the son and heir. Nor can we resist the conclusion that some at least of those grave learned men who sat in the Sanhedrim as priests or scribes well knew who the Speaker of the awful words claimed to be, and, in resisting him and seeking his destruction, were deliberately sinning against the voice of their own hearts.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

14. δεῦτε, Rec[346] A poetic adverb which occurs nowhere in the N.T.

[346] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

14. διελογίζοντο. ‘They held a consultation.’ Godet sees in the word a reflection upon the συνελογίσαντο of the Sanhedrin in Luk 20:5.

ἵνα ἡμῶν γένηται ἡ κληρονομία. “His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things,” Heb 1:2. Comp. Joh 11:47-53. “They killed that they might possess, and because they killed they lost.” Aug.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Alford’s Greek Testament

Henry Alford

14. ἰδόντ. δέ] This is taken up from the τοῦτον ἰδόντες of the verse before, and is emphatic—On the contrary, when they saw him.…

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

International Critical Commentary

14. διελογίζοντο πρὸς ἀλλήλους. This touch also is peculiar to Lk. It perhaps looks back to 19:47, 48. Nothing is gained by taking πρὸς ἀλλήλους: with λέγοντες: comp. πρὸς ἑαυτούς, which is equally amphibolous, ver. 5.

A K and Latt. have διελογίσαντο, cogitaverunt and A C Q, Vulg. have πρὸς ἑαυτούς from Mar 12:7 for πρὸς ἀλλήλους (א B D L P, Bob. Arm.). For ὁ κληρονόμος see Wsctt. on Heb 1:2 and his detached note on Heb 6:12, p. 167.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 20 words (17 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is klēronomía (“inheritance”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word klēronomía carries the sense “inheritance.” How does it shape the verse?
Matthew 21:38 shares the word «inheritance» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“the” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Bengel's Gnomon read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 17 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 3× in this single verse.
17 distinct Greek lemmas span 20 words in this verse.