Matthew 22:23-40 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered and said unto them ,.... The Sadducees: as idle and impertinent as the case they put may seem to be and really was, our Lord thought fit to return an answer to them, thereby to expose their ignorance, and put them to silence and confusion: ye do err; not only in that they denied the immortality of the soul and the resurrection, but that supposing that there would be a resurrection, things in that state would be just they were in this; as particularly for instance, that there... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:30

For in the resurrection ,.... At the time of the resurrection, and in that state; when the bodies and souls of men shall be reunited, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; neither the men marry wives, nor are the women given in marriage to men, which is done by their parents here, generally speaking, they having the right of disposing of children in marriage: but, as Luke says, "they which shall be accounted worthy"; not through their own works of righteousness, but through the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:31

But as touching the resurrection of the dead ,.... In proof of that doctrine, and which will greatly serve to confirm and establish it, and that it may appear that the dead are, or will be raised, and to put it out of all doubt, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God , as Mark adds, "in the book of Moses"; which was written by him, the book of Exodus 3:6 and though the words were spoke to Moses, yet were designed for the use, instruction, and comfort of the Israelites;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:32

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 F7 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 90. 2. , 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... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:33

And when the multitude heard this ,.... This wise and full answer of Christ to the posing question of the Sadducees, with which perhaps they had puzzled many, and never had met with their match before: they were astonished at his doctrine ; concerning the pure, perfect, and angelic state of the righteous in the world to come;, and how strongly and nervously he proved the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the dead, which were both denied by the Sadducees; and who were so... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:34

But when the Pharisees had heard ,.... Either with their own ears, they being some of them present: or rather from the relation of others, from the Scribes, who expressed their approbation of Christ's answer to the Sadducees; for the Pharisees, with the Herodians, in a body, had left him, and were gone to their respective places of abode; or to them that sent them, being baffled and confounded by him: but now hearing that he had put the Sadducees to silence , or stopped their mouths,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:35

Then one of them, which was a lawyer ,.... Or that was "learned", or "skilful in the law", as the Syriac and Persic versions, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read. The Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city", of the city of Jerusalem; but I do not meet with any such particular officer, or any such office peculiar to a single man any where: mention is made of "the Scribes of the people" in Matthew 2:4 and this man was one of them, one that interpreted the law to the people, either in... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:36

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? He calls him "master, Rabbi, or doctor", as the Sadducees had in Matthew 22:24 either because he was usually so called by his disciples, and by the generality of the people; or merely in complaisance to engage his attention to him, and his question: and might hereby suggest, that should he return a proper and satisfactory answer to it he should be his master. The question is not which of the laws was the greatest, the oral, or the written... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:37

Jesus said unto him ,.... Directly, without taking time to think of it; and though he knew with what design it was put to him, yet, as an answer to it might be useful and instructive to the people, as well as silence and confound his adversaries, he thought fit to give one; and is as follows, being what is expressed in Deuteronomy 6:5 . thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ; that is, with all the powers and faculties of the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:38

This is the first and great commandment. Whether the object of it is considered, who is the first and chief good; or the manner in which it is to be observed, which requires and engrosses the whole heart, soul, and mind, and all the strength and power of man; or its being the principle from whence all the duties, and actions of men should flow, and the end to which all are to be referred; and is not only a compendium of the duties of the first table of the decalogue, but of all others that... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:38

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