An Exposition of the New Testament, Intended as an Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures, by Pointing Out the Leading Sense and Connection of the Sacred Writers

(On Matthew 21:33-44)
"Jesus, having thus silenced the chief priests, continued the subject, by setting before them, in the audience of the people, their hardened, impenitent and dangerous state, the ungrateful returns which the Jews had made to God, for all his calls of mercy, and, finally, God's intention of casting them off, and adopting the Gentiles in their room.' Expos. in Mark xii. 1—11." (An Exposition of the New Testament, in loc.)

(On Luke 14:16-24)
"A person in the company, pleased with these instructions, expressed aloud his sense of the happiness of those who lived under the influence of the gospel. Jesus closing with the sentiment, showed, under the following parable, how very undeserving the Jews therefore were, in refusing its gracious offers; and how justly they should be rejected in favor of the Gentiles. A rich man, said he, made a great feast, to which he invited his particular friends. But they, instead of attending when called, absented themselves on trifling excuses. The master of the feast, displeased at this neglect, sent out his servants, and in the room of those unworthy guests, whom he had first invited, filled his table with those whom they accidentally met in the high roads and places of public resort." (Expos. in Luke xiv. 16—24.)