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Matthew 22

Matthew 22:4

AGAIN HE SENT FORTH OTHER SERVANTS, SAYING, TELL THEM WHICH ARE BIDDEN, BEHOLD, I HAVE PREPARED MY DINNER; MY OXEN AND MY FAT-LINGS ARE KILLED, AND ALL THINGS ARE READY; COME UNTO THE MARRIAGE. A vivid description of the elaborate preparations for an Oriental wedding-feast, to point a moral in the m... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:7

BUT WHEN THE KING HEARD THEREOF, HE WAS WROTH; AND HE SENT FORTH HIS ARMIES, AND DESTROYED THOSE MURDERERS, AND BURNED UP THEIR CITY. Here was a case of studied insolence and insult. They were indifferent to the urgent call, they paid absolutely no attention to it, in the majority of cases. They tur... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:10

SO THOSE SERVANTS WENT OUT INTO THE HIGHWAYS, AND GATHERED TOGETHER ALL, AS MANY AS THEY FOUND, BOTH BAD AND GOOD; AND THE WEDDING WAS FURNISHED WITH GUESTS. _ Then,_ when the report of the failure of his servants to persuade the former guests was made. Time was pressing; great hurry was demanded. S... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:13

THEN SAID THE KING TO THE SERVANTS, BIND HIM HAND AND FOOT, AND TAKE HIM AWAY, AND CAST HIM INTO OUTER DARKNESS; THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:14

FOR MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN. The king was naturally pleased over the success of his plan, and as soon as the guests were placed and the wedding-feast was in progress, he came in to welcome them all. But while passing down between the rows of tables his attention was drawn to one man who,... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:16

AND THEY SENT OUT UNTO HIM THEIR DISCIPLES WITH THE HERODIANS, SAYING, MASTER, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART TRUE, AND TEACHEST THE WAY OF GOD IN TRUTH, NEITHER CAREST THOU FOR ANY MAN; FOR THOU REGARDEST NOT THE PERSON OF MEN. The Pharisees had again felt the sting of the application in the last parable, a... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:21

THEY SAY UNTO HIM, CAESAR'S. THEN SAITH HE UNTO THEM, RENDER THEREFORE UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS WHICH ARE CAESAR'S, AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:22

WHEN THEY HAD HEARD THESE WORDS, THEY MARVELED, AND LEFT HIM, AND WENT THEIR WAY. They come out with their question as though they were altogether innocent and harmless, merely asking for the opinion of a respected teacher, desiring to know whether it is the right, the proper thing, whether it shoul... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:24

SAYING, MASTER, MOSES SAID, IF A MAN DIE, HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP SEED UNTO HIS BROTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:25

NOW THERE WERE WITH US SEVEN BRETHREN; AND THE FIRST, WHEN HE HAD MARRIED A WIFE, DECEASED, AND, HAVING NO ISSUE, LEFT HIS WIFE UNTO HIS BROTHER;... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:28

THEREFORE, IN THE RESURRECTION, WHOSE WIFE SHALL SHE BE OF THE SEVEN? FOR THEY ALL HAD HER. The Herodians and the disciples of the Pharisees had been silenced. But this fact seemed like a challenge to the Sadducees who prided themselves upon their cleverness. It was not merely in a spirit of mischie... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:30

FOR IN THE RESURRECTION THEY NEITHER MARRY, NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, BUT ARE AS THE ANGELS OF GOD IN HEAVEN. In an entirely dispassionate way, but with crushing emphasis, Jesus gives them His answer: Ye are altogether wrong, and that because ye know neither the plain facts of Scripture nor the pow... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:33

And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at His doctrine. A bit of Bible explanation, which is as irrefutable as it is surprising. Christ's manner implies a censure of their reading the books of Moses without understanding: Ye are ignorant of the very books which ye profess to hold sa... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:40

ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. The Sadducees had been most effectually silenced, so that they had nothing more to say. Now the ancient rivalry between the two sects came into play. Should the members of the one succeed in conquering Jesus in an argument, it would be a f... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:42

SAYING, WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? WHOSE SON IS HE? THEY SAY UNTO HIM, THE SON OF DAVID. The attack of the Pharisees had failed; their very spokesman had been obliged to admit the truth of Christ's answer, Mark 12:32. But now Christ turns to the attack by proposing a question which would impale His a... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:46

AND NO MAN WAS ABLE TO ANSWER HIM A WORD, NEITHER DURST ANY MAN FROM THAT DAY FORTH ASK HIM ANY MORE QUESTIONS. That the Messiah was to be an offspring of David is stated so often in the Old Testament that every Jew was accustomed to call Him by that name, as a matter of fact. But the Pharisees had... [ Continue Reading ]

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