Last of all, etc. Mark adds that this was an only son, greatly beloved. This beautifully and most tenderly exhibits the love of God in sen…

Last of all — The variations in the other Gospels are more vivid and dramatic. Mark says, He had yet one son, his beloved…

You see at once how this parable related to the leaders of the Jewish people. From generation to generation, they scorned the prophets of God, pers…

St. John Chrysostom: The purpose of this further parable is to show that their guilt was heinous and unworthy of forgiveness. …

The tenants mistreat some servants (cf. Jeremiah 20:1–2), kill others (cf. 1 Kings 18:4, 13; Jeremiah 26:20–23),…

They will reverence my son. Strictly speaking, indeed, this thought does not apply to God, for He knew what would happen and was not decei…

But last of all
In the last times, in the last days, in the end of the world, the Jewish world, at the close of thei…

This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; and what is spoken to convict them is spoken to caution all who enjoy the pr…

Here, they reprehend by questioning. And firstly, the questioning is related; and secondly, the refutation is related, where it is said,