He will miserably destroy those miserable men (κακους κακως απολεσε αυτους). The paronomasia or assonance is very clear. A common …

They say, etc. They answered as they knew people would act and would act justly in doing so. He would take away their privileges and confe…

They said to him... — The fact that the answer to the question came not from the speaker, but from those who heard the parable, is…

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 action of the tenants is consistently callous. Precisely how it applies to Jesus is not entirely clear. True, their attitude was not, “This is …

They say to him
Either the common people that were about him; or rather the chief priests, scribes, and elders, to w…

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,