They say] Jesus extorts their condemnation from their own lips. Otherwise in St. Mark and St. Luke. He will, etc.] RV 'He will miserably destroy those miserable men.' The allusion is to the destruction of Jerusalem 70 a.d., and the end of the Jewish dispensation.

Other husbandmen] i.e. the ministers of the Christian Church, many of them Gentiles, who succeeded to the charge which the scribes and Pharisees neglected.

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