_CHRIST VOUCHETH HIS AUTHORITY, BY A QUESTION CONCERNING JOHN'S BAPTISM. THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD. OF GIVING TRIBUTE TO CAESAR. HE CONFUTES THE SADDUCEES WHO DENIED THE RESURRECTION. HOW CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID. HE WARNETH HIS DISCIPLES TO BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES._ _Anno Domini 33._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED, &C.— The great _sanhedrim_ seems to have been established after the failure of prophesy; and concerning the members of this body the rabbies tell us there was a tradition, that they were bound to be skilled in the sciences. So far is certain, that they extended their jurisdiction to... [ Continue Reading ]
IT MAY BE THEY WILL— Numberless predictions in the Old and New Testament, as well as the nature of Deity, plainly shew that the Divine Nature foresaw Christ's death as a _certain event:_ this therefore like many others is merely an ornamental circumstance, which cannot, without absurdity, be applied... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL COME— _He will come._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH SHOULD FEIGN THEMSELVES JUST MEN,— See the note on Matthew 22:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, &C.— Our Lord is here speaking of the resurrection of the just, who are called _God's children,_ on account of the inheritance bestowed on them at the resurrection, and particularly on account of their being dignified with _immortality,_ as well as for many other reasons... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES SHEWED AT THE BUSH,— _Moses shewed, where he speaks of the Lord in the bush being the God of Abraham,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM.— It is evident that γαρ, _for,_ must here have the force of an illative particle, and may be rendered _therefore,_ or _so that;_ for what it introduces is plainly the main proposition to be proved, and not an argument for what immediately went before. In this connection the co... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY DURST NOT ASK HIM— It is plain that this is meant of the _Sadducees,_ and must be understood as limited to them, because in Matthew 22:35 we read of a question which one of the _Pharisaic scribes_ afterwards put to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 death. Else, how great a monarch soever the Messiah might have been, he could not have been properly ca... [ Continue Reading ]