From Luke 19-20

Jesus knows his death is coming up. He knows who will kill him. Importantly, Jesus knows the result of his death will bring salvation to many. Not just of his own people, but all peoples throughout the world.

This post is part of my bible in a year series.

Passage and Comments

Again a few things I would have loved to comment on in this section, but I must choose one from all.

9 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

“ ‘The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone’?

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” (Lk 20.9-18)

Jesus tells a parable which is an analogy of the long history of Israel. They have rejected God time and time again, now he sends his son, Jesus. Jesus in telling this parable once again predicts his death at their hands. Ever consider what Jesus thought would be accomplished by his death and why he thought like that?

What interested me in this parable is the significance of the cornerstone. Augustine has made me aware of it. A cornerstone connects two walls in a building. In the analogy Jesus is quoting, the walls represent different kinds of people. Jews and Gentiles. Jesus connects Jews and Gentiles into the one building of God (Eph 2.20-22).

The significance of this parable is that through the Jewish rejection of Jesus as Christ, Gentiles will be saved (Rom 11.11).

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Jesus knows his death is coming up. He knows who will kill him. Importantly, Jesus knows the result of his death will bring salvation to many. Not just of his own people, but all peoples throughout the world.

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