Luke 20:7

Then began he to speak to the people this parable,.... According to the other evangelists it seems to be spoken to the chief priests, Scribes, and elders; and certain it is, that they looked upon…

In this passage of story nothing is added here to what we had in the other evangelists; but only in the first verse, where we are told,

I. That he was now teaching the people in the temple, and…

they could not tell Rather, did not know. A wise answer in cases of real uncertainty, as the Hebrew proverb taught "Learn to say I do not know;"but a base answer when they hadan opinion but did not…