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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:1-47

This chapter records the remarkable happenings gathered around our Lord's entrance into the Temple. By a parable He revealed the awful sin and failure of the Hebrew nation, culminating in His own rejection, showing, moreover, that that sin must result ultimately in the breaking into pieces of the sinning people. The closing conflicts between the rulers and Jesus constitute the saddest revelation of the depravity of the human heart. Jesus' teaching had driven them into a comer from which there... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:1-47

Jesus Preaches In The Temple (19:47-21:38). Having driven the traders out of the Temple in His prophetic zeal Jesus then revealed the greatness of His great courage by returning daily to that same Temple in order to teach the people. As the traders, who would quickly have returned, watched with baleful eyes, and the Temple police stood by alert for trouble, Jesus boldly entered the Temple again, and ignoring both, proceeded to address the crowds gathered there. Indeed the great crowds that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:27

‘And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,’ The Pharisees having been defeated in their attempts to discredit Jesus, the Sadducees now approached Him in order to dispute His teaching on the resurrection of the body. Like many Greeks they did not believe in such a resurrection. They did it by an appeal to levirate marriage. The principle of that is that if a man dies having no children to inherit his property, with the result that his wife is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:27-40

The Sadducees and the Resurrection (20:27-40). Having made two attempts the Pharisees now withdrew for the time being in order to nurse their wounds. They were deeply chagrined, but unable to do anything about it. Jesus had thwarted their every move, and shown them up in the process. Now, however, came the turn of the Sadducees who were concerned about His teaching about the resurrection. And they came to Him with what may well have been a standard conundrum levelled at all who taught and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:27-40

Luke 20:27-Matthew : . The Question of the Resurrection Life ( Mark 12:18-Daniel : *, Matthew 22:23-Micah : *).— The first peculiarity in Lk.’ s account is Luke 20:34-Habakkuk : a, the contrast between people in this world and those deemed worthy to attain the other world and the resurrection (which, as in Luke 14:14, seems limited to the righteous). In Luke 20:36 there is a further addition; in the other world men and women do not die, hence they need not (and so do not) marry. They are “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 20:27-38

See Poole on "Matthew 22:23", and following verses to Matthew 22:32, See Poole on "Mark 12:18", and following verses to Mark 12:27, where all the passages in this piece of history are fully opened. By equal unto the angels, in Luke 20:36, we must not understand in all things, but in the thing mentioned: 1. The number of the elect shall be perfect, so there shall be no need of marrying, or giving in marriage, to multiply the number of men. 2. There shall be no more marriages amongst men than... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 20:27-40

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 20:27. Sadducees.—Members of the aristocratic and wealthy class, which included the higher ranks of the priesthood. It is a popular error, based on a statement of Jerome’s, that they rejected all the Jewish Scriptures but the Pentateuch. They accepted the later Scriptures but rejected the Oral Law and traditions. Like all Jews, no doubt, they attributed a higher degree of inspiration to the Pentateuch than to any other part of the Old Testament. Deny the resurrection.—I.e.,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 20:1-47

We are in the final week of the life of Jesus. He is now in Jerusalem. This is the week in which pilgrims are coming from all over the world to celebrate the Feast of the Passover. He has made His triumphant entry, that is on Sunday. He was officially rejected. He did cleanse the temple, driving out the moneychangers, taking authority in His Father's house. And He taught daily in the temple, we read in verse Luke 20:47 of chapter 19.So it came to pass, that on one of those days ( Luke 20:1... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 20:1-47

Luke 20:2 . Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things. A question after all his miracles which offered the foulest insult to God, and was the emanation of complot and of malice. See Matthew 21:25. Mark 11:30. Luke adds, that this question came from the three orders of the jewish council, the chief priests, the scribes, with the elders who did not belong to the tribe of Levi. By consequence, the question was like that of the highpriest, If thou be the Christ, tell us. It was asked... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 20:27-38

Luke 20:27-38There were, therefore, seven brethrenThe world to comeI.THAT THERE IS ANOTHER WORLD. Our Lord calls it that world. It is evidently opposed to “this world” (Luke 20:34); “the children of this world.” We know a little of this world. Oh that we knew it aright! Oh that we saw it with the eyes of faith! The world of which we speak is a world of light, and purity, and joy. There is “no night there” (Revelation 21:25). Hell is eternal darkness; heaven is eternal light. No ignorance, no... read more

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