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Mat_21:45 f. It was the hint contained in this concluding remark that led Jesus at once to follow up what had been already said with another parabolic address directed against His enemies.
οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς κ . οἱ Φαρις .] identical with the οἱ ἀρχ . κ . οἱ πρεσβύτεροι of Mat_21:23, so that, in the present instance, the latter are designated by the name of the party to which they belonged.
ἔγνωσαν ] what had now become clear to them from what was said, Mat_21:42-44. The confident manner in which they express themselves in Mat_21:41 bears up to that point no trace of such knowledge, otherwise we should have to suppose that they consciously pronounced their own condemnation.
εἰς (see critical remarks) προφήτην : held Him as a prophet, i.e. in Him they felt they possessed a prophet; on εἰς , which is met with in later writers in the sense of the predicate, see Bernhardy, p. 219.