Matthew 21:36 - Exposition

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 ( πλει ì ονας ). 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 πλει ì ονας 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.