Matthew Chapter 21 verse 36 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner.
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BBE Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
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DARBY Matthew 21:36

Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.
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KJV Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
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WBT Matthew 21:36


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WEB Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
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YLT Matthew 21:36

`Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 36. - Other servants. God's loving kindness was not wearied out with the husbandmen's cruelty and violence. Each step of their wickedness and obstinacy was met with renewed mercy, with fresh calls to repentance. More (πλείονας). More in number. In the latter days the number of God's messengers was much greater than in earlier times; so it is unnecessary to take πλείονας in the sense of "more honourable," "of higher dignity," though such interpretation is supported by its use in Matthew 6:25; Mark 12:33; Hebrews 11:4. Likewise. They resisted these new envoys as they had resisted these first sent, treating them with equal cruelty and violence.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(36) Other servants more than the first.--There is, perhaps, a reference here to the greater power and fulness of the work of the later prophets, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, stretching onward to that of the Baptist, as closing the whole line.