And Jesus answered and spake unto them again
Not to the multitude only, but to the chief priests, elders,
Scribes, and Pharisees: for though Mark seems to intimate, that
upon the delivery of the last parable of the vineyard, they left
him, and went their way; yet since he does not relate the
following parable, they might not leave him until they had heard
that, which is spoken with much the same design as the former,
and might increase their resentment the more: or if the chief
priests and elders did go away, the Pharisees remained behind, as
is clear from ( Matthew
22:15 ) to whom he spake
by parables,
similitudes, and comparisons, taken from earthly things, and
against whom he directed the following one;
and said,
as hereafter related.