Luke 20:47

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

WHICH DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES,.... As the characters of them, in the preceding verse, expose their pride, this shows their avarice; they were very voracious and cruel; they did not spare widows, but devoured their substance: AND FOR A SHOW MAKE LONG PRAYERS; to cover their wickedness, pretending great devotion and religion; THE SAME SHALL RECEIVE GREATER DAMNATION: than openly profane sinners; doing such wickedness under a cloak of religion, will aggravate their condemnation; Matthew 23:14....

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)...

DEVOUR. swallow up. SHOW. pretext. DAMNATION. judgment, or condemnation. App-177. Compare Luke 10:14....

_which devour widows" houses_ Josephus expressly tells us that the Pharisees had large female followings, and an absolute sway in the Gynaekonitis or women's apartments, Jos. _Antt._xviii. 2, § 4. _for a shew_ Rather, IN PRETENCE. Their hypocrisy was so notorious that even the Talmud records the warning given by Alexander Jannaeus to his wife on his deathbed against _painted_Pharisees. And in their seven classes of Pharisees the Talmudic writers place "_Shechemites_" Pharisees from self-interest; _Stumblers_so mock-humble that they will not raise their feet from the ground; _Bleeders so_mock-modest, that because they will not raise their eyes, they run against walls, &c. Thus the Jewish writers themselves depict the Pharisees as the Tartuffes of antiquity. _long prayers_ Such as the twenty-six forms of prayer at ablution; the Eighteen Benedictions (Shemoneh Esreh), &c. _damnation_ Rath...

THE SCRIBES, SADDUCEES, AND PHARISEES REDUCED TO A CONFESSION OF IGNORANCE...