At the season (καιρω). The definite season for the fruit like ο καιρος των καρπων (Matthew 21:34). That they should gi…

Beat him, and sent him away empty.—The description agrees almost verbally with St. Mark.

They grow bolder, and more wicked, you see; first beating, and then adding shameful treatment to their former cruelty. Men do not come to ridicule …

Eusebius of Caesarea: With the rulers of the Jewish people now assembled in the temple, Christ told a parable, symbolically…

And at the season
Or "when it the time of fruit", as the Ethiopic version renders it, agreeably to (See Gill on …

Christ spoke this parable against those who resolved not to acknowledge His authority, though the evidence for it was so compelling. How many resem…