On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
Saying, these last have wrought but one hour,.... Thinking it hard, that they should have the same reward for the service of one hour, others had for the service of many. This is grudged by the Jews (x); ""Bath Kol", a voice from heaven, went out and said, "Ketiah bar Shallum", is prepared for the life of the world to come; Rabbi wept, and said...
Verse 11. Murmured. Complained. Found fault with. The good man of the house. The original here is the same word which, , is translated householder, and should have been so translated here. It is the old English way of denoting the father of a family. It expresses no moral quality. (c) "against the good man"
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house--rather, "the householder," the word being the same as in Mat 20:1.