Chapter 20:
| Darby
| Geneva
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
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| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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Luke 20
Verse 1. Matt. xxi, 23; Mark xi, 27.
Verse
9. A long time - It was a long time from the entrance of the
Israelites into Canaan to the birth of Christ. Matt. xxi, 33; Mark
xii, 1.
Verse
16. He will destroy these husbandmen - Probably he pointed to
the scribes, chief priests, and elders: who allowed, he will
miserably destroy those wicked men, Matt. xxi, 41; but could not
bear that this should be applied to themselves. They might also
mean, God forbid that we should be guilty of such a crime as your
parable seems to charge us with, namely, rejecting and killing the
heir. Our saviour answers, But yet will ye do it, as is prophesied
of you.
Verse
17. He looked on them - To sharpen their attention. Psalm cxviii,
22.
Verse
18. Matt. xxi, 45.
Verse
20. Just men - Men of a tender conscience. To take hold of his
discourse - If he answered as they hoped he would. Matt. xxii, 16;
Mark xii, 12.
Verse
21. Thou speakest - In private, and teachest - In public.
Verse
24. Show me a penny - A Roman penny, which was the money
that was usually paid on that occasion.
Verse
26. They could not take hold of his words before the people - As
they did afterward before the sanhedrim, in the absence of the
people, chap. xxii, 67.
Verse
27. Matt. xxii, 23; Mark xii, 18.
Verse
28. Deut. xxv, 5.
Verse
34. The children of this world - The inhabitants of earth, marry
and are given in marriage - As being all subject to the law of
mortality; so that the species is in need of being continually
repaired.
Verse
35. But they who obtain that world - Which they enter into, before
the resurrection of the dead.
Verse
36. They are the children of God - In a more eminent sense when
they rise again.
Verse
37. That the dead are raised, even Moses, as well as the other
prophets showed, when he calleth - That is, when he recites the
words which God spoke of himself, I am the God of Abraham,
&c. It cannot properly be said, that God is the God of any who are
totally perished. Exod. iii, 6.
Verse
38. He is not a God of the dead, or, there is no God of the dead -
That is, tho term God implies such a relation, as cannot possibly
subsist between him and the dead; who in the Sadducees' sense
are extinguished spirits; who could neither worship him, nor
receive good from him. So that all live to him - All who have him
for their God, live to and enjoy him. This sentence is not an
argument for what went before; but the proposition which was to
be proved. And the consequence is apparently just. For as all the
faithful are the children of Abraham, and the Divine promise of
being a God to him and his seed is entailed upon them, it implies
their continued existence and happiness in a future state as much
as Abraham's. And as the body is an essential part of man, it
implies both his resurrection and theirs; and so overthrows the
entire scheme of the Sadducean doctrine.
Verse
40. They durst not ask him any question - The Sadducees durst
not. One of the scribes did, presently after.
Verse
41. Matt. xxii, 41; Mark xii, 35.
Verse
42. Psalm cx, 1.
Verse
46. Matt. xxiii, 5.
Verse
47. Matt. xxiii, 14.
Chapter 20:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
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