Verse 11
11. And as they heard these things The Lord seems to address the listening multitude from the gallery of the court of the house of Zaccheus. See our supplementary note, p. 121; and p. 326, of vol. 1.
He added and spake The parable was in the proper train of discourse.
Kingdom of God should immediately appear The word appear indicates their expectation that it was to be revealed as in a glory from above. On this expectation see note on Matthew 20:21.
The parable of the pounds, though much the same in structure with that of the talents, Matthew 25:14, (on which see our notes,) was undoubtedly uttered on another occasion and to illustrate a different point. It was, indeed, the same parable varied to different occasions. The present parable was based upon well known historic facts of the day. Both Herod and his son Archelaus received the kingdom of Judaea by going to a far country; that is, to the emperor at Rome. (See our notes on Matthew 2:22.) And when Archelaus went to Rome to obtain the royalty, the Jews sent an embassy to the emperor to express their desire not to have the man to reign over them.
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