What Does Luke 20:13 Mean in the King James?
Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The owner’s appeal arrives embodied in his beloved son, so the tenants’ response to the son reveals whether they recognize the one who sent him.
THE MEANING
The owner still entrusts the vineyard, and his beloved son arrives carrying the owner’s claim. The question “What shall I do?” holds open the hope that seeing the son will turn the tenants toward respect. The verse makes receiving the son inseparable from receiving the one who sent him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what is entrusted to you can be claimed as your own while the owner’s son is refused.
THE ROOT
ἐντραπήσονται
entrapēsontai
GROWS FROM
τρέπω (trepō), with ἐν- in ἐντρέπω (entrepō)
Turn; in this word family, turning toward someone can carry the response of shame or respect.
“reverence” in this verse is entrapēsontai. The Greek verb can mean to feel respect or to be ashamed before someone. The owner hopes that seeing his son will make the tenants recognize the claim standing before them.
ALSO GROWS
entrepō: Turn toward; feel shame or respect
ἐντρέπω
This related verb shows how the son’s presence can prompt regard, or expose refusal.
tropē: Turning, change
τροπή
The shared stem brings a sense of turning into the owner’s hope that seeing the son changes the tenants’ response.
ἀγαπητόν
agapēton
GROWS FROM
ἀγαπ-
agap-
Love, hold dear.
“Beloved” belongs to the same Greek family as the verb “to love” and the noun “love.” The one sent is not merely an emissary: he is dear to the owner, so rejecting him also rejects the relationship he carries.
ALSO GROWS
agapaō: Love, hold dear
ἀγαπάω
The verb makes the bond behind “beloved” visible.
agapē: Love
ἀγάπη
The related noun shows that the son arrives carrying a relationship, not only a message.
THE PATTERN
The way a sent representative is received reveals whether the sender is received.
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.THE THREAD
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.Luke uses the same Greek words for “my beloved Son” when the voice names him. Here, those words enter the owner’s deliberation as he sends the son, grounding the appeal in the relationship already named.
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