_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:1. ONE OF THOSE DAYS.—Rather, “one of the days” (R.V.). PREACHED THE GOSPEL.—Lit. “evangelised.” This beautiful word is almost confined to St. Luke, who uses it twenty-four times, and St. Paul, who uses it twenty times. CHIEF PRIESTS, etc.—Thus all classes of the Sanhedrim... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:9. THEN BEGAN HE.—The opening of a fresh series of parables and discourses. THIS PARABLE.—The substance of which is partly a history of the ingratitude and rebelliousness of the Jewish people, and partly a prophecy of their final act of apostasy in rejecting and slaying the... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:19. AND THEY FEARED THE PEOPLE.—The state of mind in which the attempt to ensnare Jesus was made: “and they did so in fear of the people” (_Alford_). Luke 20:20. THEY WATCHED HIM.—Rather, “and having watched for an opportunity.” SPIES.—Men “suborned.” JUST MEN.—_I.e._, hon... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:27. SADDUCEES.—Members of the aristocratic and wealthy class, which included the higher ranks of the priesthood. It is a popular error, based on a statement of Jerome’s, that they rejected all the Jewish Scriptures but the Pentateuch. They accepted the later Scriptures but... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.— Psalms 110:1. David was popularly supposed to be the author of the psalm. Even if he were not, the point on which Christ lays stress—viz., that... [ Continue Reading ]