Matthew Chapter 22 verse 6 Holy Bible
and the rest laid hold on his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.
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And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew [them].
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And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
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and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay `them'.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The remnant. These form the second class of recalcitrant guests. They are actively hostile to the King and his messengers, rejecting them not merely for worldly or interested motives, but from intense hatred to the doctrines which they taught. Such were the scribes and Pharisees, who could not endure to see the Law superseded, and the Gentiles raised to their level; such were the Sadducees, who scoffed at a faith founded on the resurrection, and refused credit to the miraculous with which the gospel was interwoven. Took his servants. The narratives in the Acts give many instances of the seizure and imprisonment of apostles and believers (see Acts 4:3; Acts 9:2; Acts 12:4, etc.). Entreated (treated) them spitefully (see Acts 5:40; Acts 14:19; Acts 16:23, etc.; 2 Corinthians 11:23-25). Slew them; e.g. Stephen (Acts 7:58), James (Acts 12:2). All but one of the apostles died violent deaths at the hands of those who rejected the gospel; and there must have been numbers of martyrs of whom history has preserved no record, though their names are written in heaven, which is far better.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Entreated them spitefully.--The Greek word implies the wanton infliction of outrage. The parable at this stage looks forward as well as backward, and seems to include the sufferings of Christian preachers and martyrs as well as those of the prophets who were sent to Israel.
