<p>21:41&nbsp;<em>They said to him: He will miserably destroy those miserable men</em>- In the Greek, &quot;miserable&quot; <em>kakos</em> is related to &quot;wicked&quot; <em>kakos</em>. Those men will suffer their own wickedness. And just as the Jews said that those wicked men would be punished with their own wickedness, so out of their own mouths they were judged; in the same way as the Father had asked the Jews to &quot;judge between Me and My vineyard&quot;, even though they were the vineyard (Is. 5:3). It would seem that the literal words of the rejected will be quoted back to them at the day of judgment (Lk. 19:22 &quot;Out of your own mouth will I judge you&quot;; Jude 15 &quot;To convict all that are unGodly... of all their hard words&quot;). This is just as David was invited to speak words of judgment on a sinner, and was told: &quot;thou art the man&quot;. God will remember against Edom the specific words they spoke when Jerusalem fell (Ps. 137:7 RV). See on 12:37.</p><p><em>And will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen-&nbsp;</em>The Lord&rsquo;s judgment is different. He will&nbsp;<em>give&nbsp;</em>the vineyard to the others (:44). And yet He will come and destroy the vineyard, and the new nation He will choose will not just give Him some of the fruit, but will themselves become part of the vine, and themselves bear fruit to Him (:43; Jn. 15).</p><p>Mk. 12:9 records that the Lord spoke of how the owner Himself would &ldquo;come and destroy the husbandmen&rdquo;. This is a shocking change in tempo- the owner has appeared impotent, distant and naive, to the point that the husbandmen considered He was effectively dead.&nbsp; They reasoned that if they killed the Son, then the vineyard would be theirs. But this is exactly the nature of Divine judgment. The God who appears effectively dead, at least impotent, distant and na&iuml;ve, will suddenly reveal Himself in direct judgment. We believe that now by faith, but it shall surely happen.</p><p><em>Who shall pay him the fruits in their seasons</em>- Literally, 'times'. But for the Lord there is only one harvest. Once the fruit is ripe from the first harvest, then it will be reaped. Or it may be that God's aim is that we the husbandmen bring forth all the required fruits (of the spirit) &quot;in their seasons&quot;. This indicates that over time, the various members of the body between them will bring forth every aspect of God's spirituality. The parable of the talents indicates how we have each individually been given something different by Christ. The parable of the pounds is along the same lines; as is the story of the Master who went away and left his servants looking after the house.&nbsp;<em>Each</em>&nbsp;of them was given his own&nbsp;<em>separate</em>&nbsp;work to do (Mk. 13:34). This accounts for the way in which each of us will be judged according to our own works- i.e. according to how far we have done those things which Christ intended us personally to do.</p>