Matthew 21:29
‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.
BSB
ASV
And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went.
KJV
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
(Verse 29) But he, answering, said: I do not want to. Afterwards, however, moved by repentance, he went. Qui superbe respondit: Nolo. But afterwards, upon the arrival of the Savior, the works of repentance were done in the vineyard of God, and the insolence of speech was corrected by labor.
1834–1892
THE father had a right to the services of both his sons, for they were, according to the strict rendering of the word, children, or young men under age. They depended upon him for everything, so they were bound to obey his commands. He did not lay upon them any very heavy tax. He simply asked that they should set to work in his vineyard and go at once, seeing that, probably, there was need for the vines there and then to have their earnest attention.
He answered and said, I will not--TRENCH notices the rudeness of this answer, and the total absence of any attempt to excuse such disobedience, both characteristic; representing careless, reckless sinners resisting God to His face.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
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Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
