And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,
The murmurers grudge that men hired but one hour should receive equal wages with those who labored all day. This very complaint appears in Jewish tradition itself: a laborer who works but two or three hours receives a perfect reward like those who toiled the whole day, and the rest press Him with difficulty. Here the burden is the Jewish rites and ceremonies, grievous and intolerable to carnal hearts.
AI summary
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.