Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more—This is that calculating, mercenary spirit which had peeped out—though perhaps very slightly—in Peter's question (Matthew 19:27), and which this parable was designed once for all to put down among the servants of Christ.
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