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Matthew 21:33 γεωργοῖς to farmers

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

Here: Working farmers. Here they are tenants who hold the land under contract and owe the owner a share of the produce. They are caretakers, not owners.

Matthew 21:34 γεωργοὺς farmers

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

Here: Literally 'land-workers'. In context they are tenants who have leased someone else's vineyard. They work it and live from it, but they do not own it.

Matthew 21:35 γεωργοὶ farmers

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Here: Literally 'land-workers'. In context they are tenants who leased the vineyard (v.33) and owe the owner a share of the harvest. They are not its owners.

Matthew 21:38 γεωργοὶ the farmers

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

Here: Literally 'earth-workers'. Here they are tenants who leased the vineyard (v.33) and owed the owner a share of the harvest. They are not owners, and that is the whole point.

Matthew 21:40 γεωργοῖς farmers

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”

Here: The people the owner leased the vineyard to (v. 33). They were tenants who worked land they did not own and owed the owner a share of the harvest, not owner-farmers.

Matthew 21:41 γεωργοῖς farmers

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

Here: In this setting, tenant farmers who work land they do not own and owe the owner part of the harvest.

Mark 12:1 γεωργοῖς to farmers

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

Here: Working cultivators, here tenants under a lease. This is the new element Isaiah does not have. The tenants, not the vineyard, will turn out to be the problem, and the leaders who hear the story will recognise themselves in them (12:12).

Mark 12:2 γεωργοὺς γεωργῶν farmers

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

Here: Literally 'earth-workers'. Here they are tenant farmers who work land they do not own under a lease (12:1, 'he leased it out').

Mark 12:7 γεωργοὶ farmers

But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Mark 12:9 γεωργοὺς farmers

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

Here: Men who work land they do not own, under a lease that owes the owner part of the harvest (v. 2). In the story they are hired managers, not owners.

Luke 20:9 γεωργοῖς to farmers

Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.

Here: Literally 'earth-workers'. In this setting they are tenants who farm someone else's land and owe the owner part of the crop (20:10). In the story they stand for the leaders entrusted with Israel (20:19).

Luke 20:10 γεωργοὺς γεωργοὶ farmers, the farmers

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

Here: The farmers who work land that belongs to someone else, under a lease (verse 9, 'he leased it out'). They hold the vineyard in trust. They do not own it.

Luke 20:14 γεωργοὶ farmers

But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Here: Literally 'land-workers'. Here they are tenants who lease the vineyard and owe the owner a share of its produce. They have the use of the land, not ownership of it.

Luke 20:16 γεωργοὺς farmers

He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”

John 15:1 γεωργός vinedresser

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

Here: Literally 'earth-worker': the person who works the land. Since the plant is a vine, he is the vinedresser who plants, prunes, cleans and harvests. He also controls the vine's future, as verse 2 shows.

2 Timothy 2:6 γεωργὸν farmer

The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

Here: Literally 'earth-worker'. It covers a smallholder or a tenant who works someone else's field. This is the third of Paul's three pictures, after the soldier (vv. 3–4) and the athlete (v. 5).

James 5:7 γεωργὸς farmer

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

Here: The person who actually works the soil, often a smallholder or tenant. This makes a pointed contrast with the absentee rich of 5:4, who have workers 'mow their fields' and then keep back their pay.