Seized … treated … shamefully … killed: these actions are without parallel in Luke. Treated … shamefully (Moffatt, An American Translation “ill-treated”; New Jerusalem Bible “maltreated”) may also mean “insulted” (New American Bible; Phillips “treated … with insults”) or “beat” (Good News Translation). New English Bible has “attacked … brutally.” The Greek text seems to suggest that the rest of the invited guests did these actions to all the servants.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .