Luke 20:45

And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 12:35....

39-47 The scribes commended the reply Christ made to the Sadducees about the resurrection, but they were silenced by a question concerning the Messiah. Christ, as God, was David's Lord; but Christ, as man, was David's son. The scribes would receive the severest judgement for defrauding the poor widows, and for their abuse of religion, particularly of prayer, which they used as a pretence for carrying on worldly and wicked plans. Dissembled piety is double sin. Then let us beg of God to keep us from pride, ambition, covetousness, and every evil thing; and to teach us to seek that honour which comes from him alone....

See Matthew 23:1....

EXPOSITION LUKE 20:1 _Question of the priests and scribes as to the nature of the authority under which Jesus was acting._ LUKE 20:1, LUKE 20:2 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT ON ONE OF THOSE DAYS, AS HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE IN THE TEMPLE, AND PREACHED THE GOSPEL. We are now in the midst of the so-called Passion week. Probably the events related in this chapter took place on the Tuesday. The first day of the week, Palm Sunday, was the day of the public entry into the city. The purification of the temple took place on the Monday, on which day also the barren fig tree was cursed. We are now considering the eve

THEN IN THE AUDIENCE OF ALL THE PEOPLE,.... Whilst they were about him, and hearing him, and for their sakes too; HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES; yea, he spake to the multitude, as well as to the disciples, as appears from Matthew 23:1....

LUKE 20:45 toi/j maqhtai/j @auvtou/# {C} The general tendency seems to have been to drop auvtou/ after readers had come to regard oi` maqhtai, as needing no identifying possessive pronoun; in the present instance, however, what on this basis appears to be the later reading is supported by the weighty combination of B and D. In order to reflect these conflicting considerations the Committee decided to include auvtou/ in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets....

CHAPTER 20 _ 1. His Authority Demanded and His Answer.(Luke 20:1)_ 2. Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. (Luke 20:9) 3. Question about Tribute to Caesar. (Luke 20:20) 4. The Question Concerning Resurrection. (Luke 20:27) 5. The Question Christ Asked. (Luke 20:41) 6. Beware of the Scribes! (Luke 20:45 .) The events in this chapter are found in both Matthew's and Mark's Gospels. The parable of the vineyard foretells His death. He is the so

BY WHAT AUTHORITY? (Luke 20:1-8)...

IN THE AUDIENCE OF ALL THE PEOPLE. as all the people were listening....

_in the audience of all the people_ Rather, WHILE ALL THE PEOPLE WERE LISTENING. Here followed the final rupture of Jesus with the authorities political, social, and religious of His nation. They had now made their own condemnation inevitable, and had justly provoked that great Denunciation on which (as less intelligible to Gentiles) St Luke here only touches. But he has given it in part before (Luke 11:39-52) in his account of the hostile banquet at the house of a Pharisee. In St Matthew it occupies, with its rhythmic grandeur and awfully solemn condemnation, the whole of the twenty-third chapter....