Matthew 21:36

So the landowner sent more servants than he had sent the first time. The renters treated those servants the same way that they had treated the other servants.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.

In Context

35But the renters seized the servants. They beat one of them, they killed another one, and killed another one of them by throwing stones at him.

37Later, knowing this, the landowner sent his son to the renters to get his share of the grapes. When he sent him, he said to himself, ‘They will certainly respect my son and give him some of the grapes.’

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Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46

The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →

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