vineyard - (See on Luk 13:6). In Mat 21:33 additional points are given, taken literally from Isa 5:2, to fix down the application and sustain it by Old Testament authority.
husbandmen - the ordinary spiritual guides of the people, under whose care and culture the fruits of righteousness might be yielded.
went, etc. - leaving it to the laws of the spiritual husbandry during the whole length of the Jewish economy. (See on Mar 4:26.)