Matthew 21:33

Mark hath this parable, Mark 12:1. Luke hath it, Luke 20:9. Who is here intended under the notion of a householder, or a man? We are told by the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 5:1,2, it is the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: the house of Israel and the men of Judah are his vineyard, his pleasant plant, Isaiah 5:7 he hedged this people by his providence. God often compares his church to a vineyard, Deuteronomy 32:32 Psalms 80:8 Jeremiah 2:21. The other expressions, of making in it a winepress, or a winefat, signify no more than that God had provided for the Jews all things necessary for use or ornament. His letting of it out to husbandmen, and going into a far country, signifies that, being himself, as to his glorious residence, in heaven, he had entrusted the church of the Jews with a high priest, and other priests and Levites.