What Does Matthew 21:36 Mean in the King James?
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The second wave turns the first violence from an incident into a pattern.
THE MEANING
The first servants have been beaten, killed, and stoned; now more arrive and the tenants harm them the same way. The verse names how repeated refusal becomes patterned violence, with the cost falling on the people who are sent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the claim that the earlier violence was an isolated lapse: the tenants repeat it when still more servants arrive.
THE ROOT
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
To set out or dispatch; with ἀπό (apo, away), the verb means to send forth.
This verb belongs to the word family behind ἀπόστολος (apostolos, one sent as a messenger): a messenger is defined by being dispatched. Here, another dispatch places more people in the path of the same violence.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: Messenger; one sent
ἀπόστολος
The messenger’s identity remains tied to being sent, illuminating why the repeated dispatch matters in this verse.
apostolē: Sending; commission
ἀποστολή
This branch keeps the focus on the act of dispatch, which the verse repeats even after the first servants are harmed.
THE PATTERN
Repeated sending exposes entrenched refusal when each new messenger meets the same harm.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:THE THREAD
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:Matthew 23:34 uses ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, to send or dispatch) again as Jesus says, “I send unto you,” then names killing, scourging, and persecution. The shared word makes this an explicit continuation of the repeated sending in the parable.
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