But when the husbandmen saw him
In human nature, heard him preach, and observed the miracles done
by him:
they reasoned among themselves;
as the Scribes and Pharisees, and elders of the people often did:
saying, this is the heir;
the heir of God, being his Son; and so the Ethiopic version;
"this Son is his heir", or the heir of the vineyard; being, by
appointment, heir of all things, and by his descent from David
heir to the kingdom of Israel;
come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be
ours.
The Arabic and Persic versions render it, "and his inheritance
shall be ours": the nation, city, temple, and all the emoluments
and benefits thereof. The word "come" is left out in the
Alexandrian copy, and in the Gothic and Vulgate Latin versions.
