Matthew 22:41

Matthew 22:41. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together. Probably as they gathered after the last attack.

Jesus asked them. Fuller and more exact than Mark and Luke, who seem to imply that the question was put concerning the scribes. This probably took place while His audience was changing: the Pharisees were about to withdraw, no longer daring to question Him; and ‘the multitude' (Mark 12:37) beginning to take the vacated places. Comp. chap. 23 which was addressed ‘to the multitudes' and ‘to His disciples' (Matthew 22:1).