Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard. See the note at Luke 13:6.
And hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower. These details are taken, as is the basis of the parable itself, from that beautiful parable of Isaiah 5:1-7, in order to fix down the application and sustain it by Old Testament authority.
And let it out to farmers. These are just the ordinary spiritual guides of the people, under whose care and culture the fruits of righteousness are expected to spring up.
And went into a far country - "for a long time" (Luke 20:9), leaving the vineyard to the laws of the spiritual husbandry during the whole time of the Jewish economy. On this phraseology, see the note at Mark 4:26.