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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Matthew 22

Matthew 22:1

MATTHEW CHAPTER 22 MATTHEW 22:1 The parable of the marriage of the king's son: the unworthiness of those that were first bidden: others called in their room: the punishment of one that came without a wedding garment. MATTHEW 22:15 The captious question proposed concerning paying tribute to Caesar, a... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:14

Ver. 1-14. Luke hath this parable, MATTHEW 14:16, which hath made divers interpreters think that Matthew hath put it out of its due order; for Luke reports it as spoken long before, and that not in the temple, but at a Pharisee's house where he was at dinner, and upon occasion of one of them saying,... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:15

Mark saith, MARK 12:13, _They send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words._ Luke saith, LUKE 20:20, _They watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:17

Ver. 16,17. Mark hath the same, MARK 12:14. So hath Luke, LUKE 20:21. There is a great variety of opinions, who these HERODIONS were; we read of them in an early consultation against Christ with the Pharisees, MARK 3:6. Some think, they were foreigners of other nations, whom Herod, being tetrarch of... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:22

Ver. 18-22. Mark hath the same, MARK 12:15. So hath Luke, LUKE 20:23. Our Saviour, saith Luke, _perceived their craftiness, _ how subtlety they went about to entrap him. He calls them to show him _the tribute money._ The Jews had two sorts of money, shekels and half shekels, which was money proper t... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:28

Ver. 23-28. Mark thus repeats the same history, MARK 12:18. So doth Luke, LUKE 20:27. Concerning the Sadducees we have before spoken; they were a sect amongst the Jews much differing from the Pharisees, as may be seen, ACTS 23:8. Amongst other erroneous tenets, they denied the resurrection, as may b... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:30

Mark hath the same, MARK 12:24,25, only he propounds it as a question, _Do ye not therefore err, because ye know, not the Scriptures?_ Luke saith, LUKE 20:34,35, _And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:33

Ver. 31-33. Mark hath the same, MARK 12:26,27; so hath Luke, LUKE 20:37,38; only Mark and Luke mention the time when God spake these words _in the bush, _ that is, when God appeared to Moses in the burning bush, EXODUS 3:6; and Luke addeth, _for all live unto him._ Mark also saith, _Touching the dea... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:40

Ver. 34-40. Mark relates this history more fully, MARK 12:28. And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 22:46

Ver. 41-46. Mark hath this story shortly, repeating only the substance of it, MARK 12:35; adding nothing to it, but concluding, _And the common people heard him gladly._ Luke repeateth it as shortly, LUKE 20:41,44. For the right understanding of this discourse of our Saviour to the Pharisees, we mus... [ Continue Reading ]

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