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Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
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Israel's History of Rejection
Commentators explain that the sending of 'many others' who were beaten and killed is an allegory for Israel's long history of rejecting God's prophets. The parable forced the original listeners to recall how God's servants, as mentioned in books like Jeremiah and Zechariah, were consistently and violently mistreated by the very people they were sent to guide.
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