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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 20:44

David therefore calleth Him Lord. According to the modern critics it was not David but some one else!

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 _ 1. His Authority Demanded and His Answer.(Luke 20:1)_ 2. Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. (Luke 20:9) 3. Question about Tribute to Caesar. (Luke 20:20) 4. The Question Concerning Resu...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    IS MESSIAH DAVID'S SON? (Mark 12:35 *, Matthew 22:41 *). Lk.'s version is the shortest of the three. It is not thoroughly clear that Jesus implies that Messiah is not descended from David (note His ac...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    BY WHAT AUTHORITY? (Luke 20:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Jesus said to them, "How does David say that the Christ is his son? For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, 'The Lord says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstoo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _how is he then his son?_ To a Jew it was inconceivable that a father, or ancestor, should call his son "Lord." The only possible solution that the Messiah was only "made of the seed of David _after t...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΩ͂Σ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΥἹΌΣ ἘΣΤΙΝ; To a Jew it was inconceivable that a father, or ancestor, should call his son “Lord.” The only possible solution—that the Messiah was only “made of the seed of David _after th...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE SCRIBES, SADDUCEES, AND PHARISEES REDUCED TO A CONFESSION OF IGNORANCE...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 41. AND HE SAID TO THEM, HOW SAY THEY THAT CHRIST IS DAVID'S SON? 42. AND DAVID HIMSELF SAID IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT YOU ON MY RIGHT HAND, 43. TILL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΑΛΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DAVID THEREFORE CALLETH HIM LORD, &C.— This implies both the existence of David in a future state, and the authority of the Messiah over that invisible world, into which this prince was removed by dea...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Search For An Excuse Scripture_ Luke 20:19-47 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they percei...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 5 Rationale of Christ's Glory (Luke 20:41-47) 41 But he said to them, How can they say that the Christ is David's son? 42For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, -Th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 12:35....

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    24 Two kinds of coins were in circulation, the Roman and the Jewish. The temple taxes had to be paid in the Jewish shekel, the Roman in the foreign currency. The fact that they had accepted the conque...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IS THE CHRIST DAVID'S SON? (Matthew 22:41; Mark 12:35). See on Mt....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS INCIDENTS OF THE LAST WEEK 1-8. The authority of Jesus challenged (Matthew 21:23; Mark 11:27). See on Mt....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The counter question_ (Matthew 22:41-46; Mark 12:35-37). Lk., who had given something similar at an earlier stage (Luke 10:25-37), omits the question of the scribe concerning the great commandment, w...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DAVID'S LORD TESTING MEN AND WOMEN Luke 20:41-47; Luke 21:1-4 It was the Master's turn to question. As man, He was David's descendant and son; as the Son of God, He was his Lord. Though it sealed His...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter records the remarkable happenings gathered around our Lord's entrance into the Temple. By a parable He revealed the awful sin and failure of the Hebrew nation, culminating in His own reje...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Christ indeed is both the Lord and Servant of David. He is Servant, according to the flesh, being a descendant of David; and he is Lord, according to the spirit, being Lord of all. (St. John Chrysosto...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHRIST THE SON OF DAVID Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44; Matthew 22:41-46. “And the Pharisees being assembled, Jesus asked them, saying, What do you think concerning the Christ? Whose Son is He? They say...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    6. _The Question of Jesus: Luke 20:41-44_. VERS. 41-44. Matthew and Mark place here the question of a scribe on the great commandment of the law. This question was suggested to the man, as we see from...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy foot...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    It will be remarked here that, as He draws nigh to Jerusalem, the Lord weeps over the city. It is not now as in Matthew, where, while discoursing with the Jews, He points it out to them as that which...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DAVID THEREFORE CALLED HIM LORD,.... Or, "my Lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; or, "his Lord", as the Arabic version. This is the inference from the words before cited Psalms 110:1, up...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _How say they that Christ is David's son_, &c. For an elucidation of these verses, see on Matthew 22:41; Matthew 23:5; Matthew 23:14; and Mar

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Christ David's son and Lord. Matthew 22:41-46....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The counter-question of Jesus:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    David therefore calleth Him Lord, how is He, then, his Son? The answer of Jesus had been so convincing that even some of the scribes had to admit that He had spoken well. And all the enemies having be...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    AUTHORITY:FROM HEAVEN OR OF MEN? (vs.1-8) The chief priests and scribes used every means they could to discredit the Lord Jesus among the people. While He was teaching and preaching in the temple, th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    39-47 The scribes commended the reply Christ made to the Sadducees about the resurrection, but they were silenced by a question concerning the Messiah. Christ, as God, was David's Lord; but Christ, a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 20:43...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 20:44 Therefore G3767 David G1138 calls G2564 (G5719) Him G846 Lord G2962 how G4459 He G2076 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?” Now if this were the case, asks Jesus, how can He be limited to being described merely as David's son, when He is in fact declared to be David'...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    In this section Luke records the assault of the Sadducees respecting the resurrection (Luke 20:27-40); then omitting the lawyer's question, he tells of our Lord's unanswered question respecting _Chris...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 20:41-44. OUR LORD'S CLOSING QUESTION. See on Matthew 22:41-46; Mark 12:35-37. UNTO THEM (Luke 20:41), i.e.,

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    DAVID THEREFORE (Δαυειδ ουν). Without ε as in Matthew 22:45. On the basis of this definite piece of exegesis (ουν, therefore) Jesus presses the problem (πως, how) for an explanation. The deity and t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 20:2. _Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things._ A question after all his miracles which offered the foulest insult to God, and was the emanation of complot and of malice. See Matthew...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _How say they that Christ is David’s son?_ DAVID, CHRIST’S ANCESTOR “How say they that Christ is David’s son?” Reading David’s history, we might exclaim, “How, indeed!” Son of David, Son of God: is n...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 20 VER. 36. _They are equal unto the angels._ So the Arabic, Syriac, Egyptian, Persian, and Ethiopic; equal in celibacy, immortality, glory. As therefore the angels do not marry nor generate,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:41. TO THEM.—_I.e._, to the scribes. CHRIST.—Rather, “the Christ” (R.V.). DAVID’S SON.—Cf. John 7:42. Luke 20:42. DAVID HIMSELF.—...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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    1 Timothy 3:16; Galatians 4:4; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31; Luke 2:11;...

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