<p>21:37&nbsp;<em>And last of all he sent his son to them, saying: They will respect my son</em>- Lk. 20:13 adds &quot;It may be that...&quot;. The Greek&nbsp;<em>isos</em>&nbsp;is tantalizingly hard to understand. It could mean 'Perhaps'; or equally it could mean 'They will, surely'. Lk. 20:13 adds &ldquo;My beloved Son&rdquo;. Thus the joyful harvest song of Is. 5:1, the &quot;song of my beloved&rdquo;, becomes the tragedy of &quot;My beloved son&quot;.&nbsp;The invitation &quot;O inhabitants of Jerusalem&hellip; judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard&quot; (Is. 5:3) is matched by the rhetorical question: &quot;What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do unto them?&quot; (Lk. 20:15). This too was addressed by the Lord to Jerusalem&rsquo;s inhabitants.</p><p>We wonder of course how the Father could truly feel like this if He is omniscient. My suggestion is that He limits His omniscience in order to enter fully into our human experience; which means that His expressions of shock and disappointment are legitimate reflections of how He actually feels.</p>