And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another.

But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

And wounded one, and killed another. Here Mark andLuke differ a little from Matthew; for while Matthew mentions many servants, all of whom were ill-treated and insulted, and says that afterwards other servants were sent more numerous than the first, Mark and Luke mention but one at a time, as if the servants had been sent, not two or three together, but one after another. But though all the three Evangelists have the same object in view, namely, to show that the Jews will dare to act towards the Son in the same manner as they have repeatedly done towards the prophets, Matthew explains the matter more at large, namely, that God, by sending a multitude of prophets, contended with the malice of the priests. [1] Hence it appears how obstinate their malice was, for the correction of which no remedies were of any avail. [2]

Footnotes

1 - "Que Dieu ne s'est point lassé pour la cruauté des sacrificateurs, d'envoyer des prophetes; mais les suscitant comme par troupes, a combatu contre leur malice;" -- "That God did not, on account of the cruelty of the priests, fail to send prophets; but raising them up -- as it were -- in troops, fought against their malice."

2 - "Veu que tous les mayens et remedes que Dieu y a employez n'ont rien servi;" -- "since all the means and remedies which God employed for it were of no avail."

And beat one - The word translated here as "beat" properly means to flay or to take off the skin; hence to beat or to whip so that the skin in many places is taken off.
And killed another - Isaiah is said to have been put to death by sawing him asunder.
Many other of the prophets were also put to death. See Luke 13:34; Hebrews 11:37; 1-Samuel 22:18; 1-Kings 19:10.
And stoned another - This was among the Jews a common mode of punishment, Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 17:7; Joshua 7:25. Especially was this the case in times of popular tumult, and of sudden indignation among the people, Acts 7:58; Acts 14:19; John 8:59; John 10:31. This does not I imply, of necessity, that those who were stoned "died," but they might be only severely wounded. Mark says, "At him they cast stones and wounded him in the head, and sent him away," etc.
There is a little variation in the circumstances as mentioned by Matthew, and by Mark and Luke, but the substance is the same. Mark and Luke are more particular, and state the order in which the servants were sent one after another. They all denote the dealing of the people of Israel toward the prophets. All these things had been done to them. See Hebrews 11:37; Jeremiah 44:4-6; 2-Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:26; 2-Chronicles 24:20-21.

Beat one - Εδειραν, took his skin off, flayed him: probably alluding to some who had been excessively scourged.
Killed another, etc. - Rid themselves of the true witnesses of God by a variety of persecutions.

And the husbandmen took his servants,.... They seized and laid hold of them in a rude and violent manner: so far were they from treating these servants with respect, as they ought to have done; considering whose they were, from whom they came, and upon what account; and also so far from delivering to them the fruit due to their master, or excusing their inability to make a suitable return, as might be expected, they use them very roughly:
and beat one; either with the fist, as Jeremiah was struck by Pashur, the son of Immer, the priest, one of these husbandmen,
Jeremiah 20:1 and as Micaiah was smitten on the cheek by Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, the false prophet, 2-Chronicles 18:23 or with a scourge, and may refer to the punishment of beating with forty stripes, save one, by which the skin was flayed off; as the word here signifies; for some of these servants had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings,
Hebrews 11:36. And killed another; that is, with the sword. There were four kinds of death in the power of the sanhedrim, of which this is one, and what follows is another; and were these, stoning, burning, killing (i.e. beheading with the sword), and strangling: the manner of executing this punishment here expressed, was this:
"They cut off the person's head "with a sword", in the manner the government orders it. R. Judah says, this is indecent (i.e. to cut off his head standing, they do not do so), but they put his head upon a block, and cut it off with an axe; they reply to him, there is no death more abominable than this (x).
So the prophets, in the time of Elijah, were killed with the sword,
1-Kings 19:14 see also Daniel 11:33.
And stoned another; as they did Zechariah, 2-Chronicles 24:21 and doubtless many others; since Jerusalem had the character of killing the prophets, and stoning them that were sent unto her, Matthew 23:37 these seemed such that were stoned, but not killed; but as Mark says, were wounded in the head with the stones thrown at them, and shamefully handled, and sadly abused,
(x) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 1, 3.

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one--see Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 38:6.
and killed another--see Jeremiah 26:20-23.
and stoned another--see 2-Chronicles 24:21. Compare with this whole verse Matthew 23:37, where our Lord reiterates these charges in the most melting strain.

And the husbandmen took his servants. According to the obvious design of the whole parable, this is a lively figure for the undutiful and violent reception often given to the prophets or other divine messengers, and the refusal to obey their message. See Matthew 23:29-31, Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:37; Luke 11:47-50; Luke 13:33-34. Compare 1-Thessalonians 2:15; Revelation 16:6; Revelation 18:24.
Killed another. Some of the prophets were not merely maltreated, but actually put to death.