But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Ver. 38. This is the heir; come, &c.] So that these husbandmen the Pharisees knew, and yet crucified the Lord of glory; and all this out of desperate malice, which had debauched their reason, and even satanized or transformed them into so many breathing devils; they fell into that unpardonable sin, Matthew 12:31 .
Let us seize on his inheritance] Covetousness is bloody, Ezekiel 22:13; Proverbs 1:11; Proverbs 1:13 1 Kings 21:10. Ahab longed for a salad out of Naboth's vineyard, and must have it, though Naboth die for it, Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames! Judas selleth his Master for thirty pence.