Romans 10:21 Cross References - WPNT

²¹ But concerning Israel he says: “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

¹ “For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² And agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour [9 a.m.] he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴ And he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard and I will give you whatever is right.’ So off they went. ⁵ He went out again about the sixth hour, and the ninth, and did the same. ⁶ Now about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’ ⁷ They say to him, ‘Because no one hired us’. He says to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right’. ⁸ So when evening had come the owner of the vineyard says to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wage, beginning at the last to the first’. ⁹ The eleventh hour ones came and each received a denarius. ¹⁰ So when the first ones came they supposed that they would receive more; yet each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹ When they received it they began grumbling against the landowner ¹² saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden and the heat of the day!’ ¹³ But in answer he said to one of them: ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours and go. I wish to give to this last one just as to you. ¹⁵ Or isn’t it permissible for me to do what I want with what is mine? Is your eye evil because I am good?’

³³ “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey. ³⁴ When vintage-time drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits. ³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’. ³⁸ But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’ ³⁹ And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” ⁴¹ They say to Him: “He will miserably destroy those miserable men! And he will lease the vineyard to other farmers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.” ⁴² Jesus says to them: “Did you never read in the Scriptures: ‘A stone which the builders rejected, this one became the cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

³ And he sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, but they did not want to come. ⁴ Again he sent out other servants saying: ‘Say to those who have been invited: “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast”!’ ⁵ Now the indifferent ones just took off—one to his own field, another to his business. ⁶ But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them! ⁷ So when that king heard about it he was furious; and sending his troops he destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

³⁴ So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city ³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do. ⁵² Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we are being turned to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ Because that is just how the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you to be a light for ethnic nations, that you should be for salvation up to the last place on earth’.”

¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

⁸ also “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense;” being disobedient to the Word, they stumble, to which, indeed, they were appointed.