Matthew 22:32

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 12:13....

23-33 The doctrines of Christ displeased the infidel Sadducees, as well as the Pharisees and Herodians. He carried the great truths of the resurrection and a future state, further than they had yet been reveled. There is no arguing from the state of things in this world, as to what will take place hereafter. Let truth be set in a clear light, and it appears in full strength. Having thus silenced them, our Lord proceeded to show the truth of the doctrine of the resurrection from the books of Moses. God declared to Moses that he was the God of the patriarchs, who had died long before; this shows that they were then in a state of being, capable of enjoying his favour, and proves that the doctrine of the resurrection is clearly taught in the Old Testament as well as in the New. But this doctrine was kept for a more full revelation, after the resurrection of Christ, who was the first-fruits...

Verse 32. _I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM_] Let it be observed, that Abraham was dead upwards of 300 years before these words were spoken to Moses: yet _still_ God calls himself the _God of Abraham_, c. Now Christ properly observes that God is not the God of _the_ _dead_, (that word being equal, in the sense of the Sadducees, to an _eternal annihilation_,) but of the _living_ it therefore follows that, if he be the _God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob_, these are not _dead_, but _alive_; alive _with God_, though they had ceased, for some hundreds of years, to _exist among mortals_. We may see, from this, that our Lord combats and confutes _another_ opinion of the Sadducees, viz. _that there is neither angel nor spirit_; by showing that the _soul_ is not only immortal, but lives _with God_, even _while_ the _body_ is detained in the _dust_ of the _earth_, which body is afterwards to b...

CONVERSATION OF JESUS WITH THE SADDUCEES RESPECTING THE RESURRECTION - See also Mark 12:18; Luke 20:27. Matthew 22:23 THE SAME DAY CAME THE SADDUCEES - For an account of the Sadducees, see the notes at Matthew 3:7. NO RESURRECTION - The word “resurrection” usually means the raising up the “body” to life after it is dead, John 11:24; John 5:29;...

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 22:1 _Parable of the marriage of the king_'_s son. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 22:1 JESUS ANSWERED AND SPAKE UNTO THEM. After they had heard our Lord's words at the end of the last chapter, the Pharisees, according to St. Mark, "left him, and went their way," so that this parable was spoken in the audience of the disciples and the attendant multitude alone, without the former disturbing element. This fact may account for its exhibiting certain merciful and gracious features, setting forth the privilege rather than the duty of obeying the gospel call. The term "answered" often does not signify a reply given to some distinct question, but is equivalent to "took occas

I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB,.... The Sadducees expressly denied, that the resurrection could be proved out of the law. "Says R. Eliezer, with R. Jose g, I have found the books of the Sadducees to be corrupt; for they say that the resurrection of the dead is not to be proved out of the law: I said unto them, you have corrupted your law, and ye have not caused anything to come up into your hands, for ye say the resurrection of the dead is not to be proved out of the law; lo! he saith, Numbers 15:31 "That soul shall be utterly cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him; he shall be utterly cut off" in this world; "his iniquity shall be upon him", is not this said with respect to the world to come?.'' Hence, in opposition to this notion of the Sadducees, the other Jews say h, that "Though a man confesses and believes th

MATTHEW 22:32 e;stin @o`# qeo,j {C} In the interest of greater precision, the later form of the text inserted a second qeo,j (“For God is not a God of dead people, but of living”). In order to reflect the difficulty of deciding whether o` was omitted by assimilation to the parallel in Mark 12:27, or whether it was added under the influence of the four instances of o` qeo,j immediately preceding, the Committee retained o` within square brackets....

10. THE PARABLE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST. The King's Answers and His Question. CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Parable of the Marriage Feast. (Matthew 22:1 .) 2. The Herodians Answered. (Matthew 22:15 .) 3. The Sadducees Answered.(Matthew 22:23 .) 4. The Pharisees Answered.(Matthew 22:34 .) 5. The Unanswered Question.(Matthew 22:41 .)_ A third parable follows immediately. They would have laid their hands upon Him, after that searching second parable had been uttered by the Lord, but His hour was not yet. Once more He f

THE QUESTION OF THE RESURRECTION LIFE (Mark 12:18 *, Luke 20:27). Mt.'s changes are mostly in the direction of simplicity. As regards the question of the Sadducees, while Leviticus 18:16; Leviticus 20:21 forbid marriage with a dead brother's wife, Deuteronomy 25:5 enjoins it in certain circumstances. The answer of Jesus (Matthew 22:29 ff.) to their attempt to argue against resurrection by an imaginary complication of this kind is twofold. First, they

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