Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 21:36

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

Mark agrees in the substance but mentions three single Servants sent, and then many others The [illegible: 2 letters]r[illegible: 1 letter]t he saith they caught, and beat, and sent away Empty. At the second he saith, they cast stones, wounded him in the Head, and [illegible: 1 letter]ent him away sham[illegible: 1 letter]fully hand[illegible: 1 letter]ed. The third he saith they k[illegible: 3 letters]ed, and for others, they did bea[illegible: 1 letter] some, and kill some. Luke speaks to the same Sense: I observed before▪ that we must not look to [illegible: 2 letters]t every particular P[illegible: 1 letter]rase in a Parable, in the Explication By the Servants here sent to the Husband-men are doubtless to be under[illegible: 2 letters]ood those extraordinary Proph[illegible: 1 letter]ts, whom [illegible: 1 letter]n the corr[illegible: 1 letter]pt [illegible: 1 letter]tate of the [illegible: 1 letter]ewish Church God sent to reprove the P[illegible: 2 letters]ests, and to admonish the Priests, as well as the People o[illegible: 1 letter] the Duty which they owed unto God, in Obedience to his Law. And the various Phrases here used▪ to express the [illegible: 1 letter]ndignities o[illegible: 2 letters]ered to the Servants, do b[illegible: 1 letter]t signi[illegible: 2 letters]e the various abu[illegible: 1 letter]es offered to many of these Prophets, of which are instances in 1 King. 19.10. 2. Chron. 36.16. Neh. 9.26 Ier. 44.4, 5, 6. Ieremiah was beaten and imprisoned, so was M[illegible: 1 letter]caiah, Zechariah slain in the Temple, &c.