Luke 20:16
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New International Version (©2011)
He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
"I'll tell you--he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others." "How terrible that such a thing should ever happen," his listeners protested.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." But when they heard this they said, "No--never!"

International Standard Version (©2012)
He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"

NET Bible (©2006)
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“He shall come and destroy those workers, and he shall give the vineyard to others”; but when they heard, they said, “May this not be!”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He will destroy these workers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That's unthinkable!"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He shall come and destroy these tenants, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

American King James Version
He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

American Standard Version
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Darby Bible Translation
He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!

English Revised Version
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Webster's Bible Translation
He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.

Weymouth New Testament
He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.

World English Bible
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

Young's Literal Translation
He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!'

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen,.... Which had its accomplishment at the destruction of Jerusalem: according to the other evangelists, these words are the answer of the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to the above questions put to them by Christ, after he had delivered the parable; but here they seem to be the words of Christ, who also said the same, and confirmed what they had observed, and could not but own, that it was just and right, and what might be expected, with what follows:

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Vincent's Word Studies

Destroy

See on Matthew 21:41.

God forbid (μὴ γένοιτο)

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

God forbid - Or, Let it not be, μη γενοιτο. Our phrase, God forbid, answers pretty well to the meaning of the Greek, but it is no translation.

Geneva Study Bible

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Wesley's Notes

20:16 He will destroy these husbandmen - Probably he pointed to the scribes, chief priests, and elders: who allowed, he will miserably destroy those wicked men, Mt 21:41; but could not bear that this should be applied to themselves. They might also mean, God forbid that we should be guilty of such a crime as your parable seems to charge us with, namely, rejecting and killing the heir. Our Saviour answers, But yet will ye do it, as is prophesied of you.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. He shall come, &c.-This answer was given by the Pharisees themselves (Mt 21:41), thus pronouncing their own righteous doom. Matthew alone (Mt 21:43) gives the naked application, that "the kingdom of God should be taken from them, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof"-the great evangelical community of the faithful, chiefly Gentiles.

God forbid-His whole meaning now bursting upon them.

Luke 20:16 Parallel Commentaries
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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
…15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. 17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Matthew 21:34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
Matthew 21:41 "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time."
Mark 12:9 "What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Luke 19:27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'"
Luke 20:15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Romans 3:4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."
Romans 3:6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
Romans 6:2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 7:7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.