Other servants more than the first.—There is, perhaps, a reference here to the greater power and fullness of the work of the later prophets, such a…

You see at once how this parable related to the leaders of the Jewish people. From generation to generation, they scorned the prophets of God, pers…

St. John Chrysostom: The purpose of this further parable is to show that their guilt was heinous and unworthy of forgiveness. …

The tenants mistreat some servants (cf. Jeremiah 20:1–2), kill others (cf. 1 Kings 18:4, 13; Jeremiah 26:20–23),…

Again he sent other servants
Meaning, perhaps, such as suffered in the times of the Maccabees:

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This parable plainly sets forth the sin and ruin of the Jewish nation; and what is spoken to convict them is spoken to caution all who enjoy the pr…

Here, they reprehend by questioning. And firstly, the questioning is related; and secondly, the refutation is related, where it is said,