Matius 21:32

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab Yohanes datang untuk menunjukkan jalan kebenaran kepadamu, dan kamu tidak percaya kepadanya. Tetapi pemungut-pemungut cukai dan perempuan-perempuan sundal percaya kepadanya. Dan meskipun kamu melihatnya, tetapi kemudian kamu tidak menyesal dan kamu tidak juga percaya kepadanya."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab Yohanes datang untuk menunjukkan jalan kebenaran kepadamu, dan kamu tidak percaya kepadanya. Tetapi pemungut-pemungut cukai dan perempuan-perempuan sundal percaya kepadanya. Dan meskipun kamu melihatnya, tetapi kemudian kamu tidak menyesal dan kamu tidak juga percaya kepadanya."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena Yahya sudah datang kepadamu akan menunjukkan jalan kebenaran, maka tiada kamu percaya akan dia; tetapi orang pemungut cukai dan perempuan sundal itu sudah percaya akan dia. Sungguhpun kamu ini sudah melihat hal itu, tetapi akhirnya pun tiada juga kamu bertobat, sehingga sampai kamu percaya akan dia."

Contextual Overview

²⁸ But what thynke you? A man had two sonnes, and came to the firste, and saide: sonne, go and worke to day in my vineyarde. ²⁹ He aunswered and saide, I wyll not: but afterwarde he repented, and went. ³⁰ Then came he to the seconde, & sayde lykewyse. And he aunswered & saide, I wyll sir, and went not. ³¹ Whether of them twayne did the wyl of the father? And they saide vnto him, the first. Iesus sayth vnto them: Ueryly I saye vnto you, that publicanes & harlottes go into the kingdome of God, before you. ³² For Iohn came vnto you by the way of righteousnes, & ye beleued hym not: but publicanes & harlottes beleued him. And ye, when ye had sene [it] were not moued afterwarde with repentaunce, that ye myght haue beleued hym.

Bible Verse Review
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came: Matthew 3:1-8, Isaiah 35:8, Jeremiah 6:16, Luke 3:8-13, 2 Peter 2:21

and ye believed: Matthew 21:25, Matthew 11:18, Luke 7:29, Luke 7:30, John 5:33-36, Acts 13:25-29

the publicans: Luke 7:37-50

repented: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, John 5:37-40, 2 Timothy 2:25, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 6:6-8, Revelation 2:21

Reciprocal: Daniel 5:22 - hast Matthew 3:8 - forth Matthew 5:46 - publicans Matthew 9:9 - named Matthew 14:5 - because Matthew 17:12 - and they Matthew 18:17 - a publican Matthew 19:30 - General Matthew 23:13 - for ye shut Mark 1:15 - repent Mark 2:15 - General Mark 11:31 - Why Mark 11:32 - for Luke 1:16 - General Luke 3:12 - General Luke 12:57 - General Luke 16:16 - and every Luke 18:10 - a Pharisee John 15:24 - but Acts 20:21 - repentance 1 Corinthians 6:16 - an harlot Hebrews 6:1 - repentance Revelation 9:20 - yet

Cross-References

Genesis 10:14
Pathrusim also, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philisthiim) & Capthorim.

Genesis 14:13
And there came one that had escaped, and tolde Abram the Hebrewe, whiche dwelled in the playne of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol, and brother of Aner, whiche were confederate with Abram.

Genesis 21:27
And Abraham toke sheepe and Oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: & they made both of them a leage together.

Genesis 26:8
And after he had ben there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines loked out at a windowe, & sawe Isahac sportyng with Rebecca his wyfe.

Genesis 26:14
For he had possessio of sheepe, of oxen, and a myghtie housholde: and therfore the Philistines had enuie at hym.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, and the God of theyr father, be iudge betwixt vs. And Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isahac.

Exodus 13:17
It came to passe, that when Pharao had let the people go, God caryed them not through the way of the lande of the Philistines, which was the more nygh way. But God saide: lest peraduenture the people repent whe they see warre, and so turne agayne to Egypt.

Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel began agayne to comitte wickednesse in the sight of the lord, and the Lorde deliuered them into the handes of the Philistines fourtie yeres.

1 Samuel 18:3
Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenaunt, because he loued him as his owne soule.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For John came unto you in a way of righteousness,.... He had a commission from God; he was no impostor; the doctrine he taught was true, and which he faithfully delivered; his life and conversation were unblamable; there was nothing in his credentials, ministry, and conduct, that could justly be found fault with:

and ye believed him not; to be the forerunner of the Messiah, or the Elias that was to come; nor attended to the doctrine of repentance preached by him, nor were subject to the ordinance of baptism he administered; nor gave any assent, or credit, to the Messiah he so manifestly pointed out:

but the publicans and harlots believed him; what he said concerning the wrath to come, and the miserable state and danger they were in; and they repented of their sins, and confessed them, and were baptized of him in Jordan; believing the testimony he gave of Jesus of Nazareth being the Messiah, and Son of God:

and ye, when ye had seen it; the repentance and faith of these persons, and what a wonderful reformation was wrought in them,

repented not afterwards; of their disobedience, impenitence, and unbelief, after they had seen the effects of John's ministry on these very profligate sinners, and after, the death of John; who, by his constancy, zeal, and faithfulness, had shown himself to be a true, and upright minister of the word; and afterwards under the ministry of Christ, and his apostles, by, whom the same doctrines were preached, and the same ordinances administered,

that ye might believe him; the testimony he has left behind him concerning the Messiah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But what think ye? - A way of speaking designed to direct them particularly to what he was saying, that they might be self-convicted.

Two sons - By those two sons our Lord intends to represent the conduct of the Jews, and that of the publicans and sinners.

In my vineyard - See the notes at Matthew 21:33. To work in the vineyard here represents the work which God requires man to do.

I will not - This had been the language of the publicans and wicked men. They refused at first, and did not “profess” to be willing to go.

Repented - Changed his mind. Afterward, at the preaching of John and Christ, the publicans - the wicked - repented and obeyed.

The second ...said, I go sir; and went not - This represented the conduct of the scribes and Pharisees - “professing” to obey God, observing the external rites of religion, but opposed really to the kingdom of God, and about to put his Son to death.

Whether of them twain ... - Which of the two. “They say unto him, The first.” This answer was correct; but it is strange that they did not perceive that it condemned themselves.

Go into the kingdom of God - Become Christians, or more readily follow the Saviour. See the notes at Matthew 3:2.

Before you - Rather than you. They are more likely to do it than you. You are self-righteous, self-willed, and obstinate.

John came in the way of righteousness - Many of them have believed, but you have not. That is, in the right way, or teaching the way to be righteous; to wit, by repentance. Publicans and harlots heard him and became righteous, but they did not. They saw it, but, as in one thousand other cases, it did not produce the proper effect on them, and they would not repent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. John came unto you in the way of righteousness — Proclaiming the truth, and living agreeably to it. Or, John came unto you, who are in the way of righteousness. This seems rather to be the true meaning and construction of this passage. The Jews are here distinguished from the Gentiles. The former were in the way of righteousness, had the revelation of God, and the ordinances of justice established among them; the latter were in the way of unrighteousness, without the Divine revelation, and iniquitous in all their conduct: John came to both, preaching the doctrine of repentance, and proclaiming Jesus the Christ. To say that it was John who came in the way of righteousness, and that to him the words refer, is, in my opinion, saying nothing; for this was necessarily implied: as he professed to come from God, he must not only preach righteousness, but walk in it.

It is very difficult to get a worldly minded and self-righteous man brought to Christ. Examples signify little to him. Urge the example of an eminent saint, he is discouraged at it. Show him a profligate sinner converted to God, him he is ashamed to own and follow; and, as to the conduct of the generality of the followers of Christ, it is not striking enough to impress him. John, and Christ, and the apostles preach; but, to multitudes, all is in vain.