“And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.”
While the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The violence of some of the invited guests — seizing, shaming, and killing the king's servants — corresponds to the tenants' treatment of the vineyard owner's servants in the previous parable. Both parables encode the history of Israel's treatment of the prophets.
Church Fathers on Matthew 22:6
Forasmuch as He had said, And it shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof,' He now proceeds to shew what nation that is.
'Answered,' that is, meeting their evil thoughts of putting Him to death.
This parable is related only by Matthew. Luke gives one like it, but it is not the same, as the order shews.
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