Luke 20:1
Matthew 21:23; Mark 11:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 21:23; Mark 11:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
A long time — It was a long time from the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan to the birth of Christ. Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
He will destroy these husbandmen — Probably he pointed to the scribes, chief priests, and elders: who allowed, he will miserably destroy those wicked men, Matthew 21:41; but could not bear that this should be applied to themselves. They might also mean, God forbid that we should be guilty of such a... [ Continue Reading ]
He looked on them — To sharpen their attention. Psalms 118:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 21:45.... [ Continue Reading ]
Just men — Men of a tender conscience. To take hold of his discourse — If he answered as they hoped he would. Matthew 22:16; Mark 12:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou speakest — In private, and teachest — In public.... [ Continue Reading ]
Show me a penny — A Roman penny, which was the money that was usually paid on that occasion.... [ Continue Reading ]
They could not take hold of his words before the people — As they did afterward before the sanhedrim, in the absence of the people, Luke 22:67, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 25:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
The children of this world — The inhabitants of earth, marry and are given in marriage — As being all subject to the law of mortality; so that the species is in need of being continually repaired.... [ Continue Reading ]
But they who obtain that world — Which they enter into, before the resurrection of the dead.... [ Continue Reading ]
They are the children of God — In a more eminent sense when they rise again.... [ Continue Reading ]
That the dead are raised, even Moses, as well as the other prophets showed, when he calleth — That is, when he recites the words which God spoke of himself, I am the God of Abraham, Matthew 22:32. It cannot properly be said, that God is the God of any who are totally perished. Exodus 3:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
He is not a God of the dead, or, there is no God of the dead — That is, tho term God implies such a relation, as cannot possibly subsist between him and the dead; who in the Sadducees' sense are extinguished spirits; who could neither worship him, nor receive good from him. So that all live to him —... [ Continue Reading ]
They durst not ask him any question — The Sadducees durst not. One of the scribes did, presently after.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 22:41; Mark 12:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 110:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 23:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 23:14.... [ Continue Reading ]