Matthew 22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:20

And he saith unto them ,.... Having the penny in one hand, and pointing to it with the other, whose is this image and superscription? or inscription? for the penny that was, brought him had an image upon it, the form of a man's head struck on it, and round about it an inscription, or writing, showing who it was the image of, and whose money it was, and when it was coined: this is enough to show, that this penny was not a Jewish, but a Roman one; for the Jews, though they put... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:21

They say unto him, Caesar's ,.... Either Augustus Caesar's; for there was a coin of that emperor's, as Dr. Hammond reports, from Occo, which had his image or picture on it, and in it these words written, Augustus Caesar, such a year, "after the taking of Judaea"; which if this was the coin, was a standing testimony of the subjection of the Jews to the Romans; and this being current with them, was an acknowledgment of it by them, and carried in it an argument of their obligation to pay... read more

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

When they had heard these words ,.... This answer returned unto them, this advice which was given them, which they could not gainsay or deny to be good, they marvelled : were amazed and astonished, at his prudence and wisdom, in answering them, in such an unexpected and cautious manner: they left him : being silenced, confounded, and disappointed: and went their way : not being able to get any advantage against him, neither to bring him into contempt with the people, and alienate... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:23

These understanding that the former had not succeeded, came with a knotty question, with which they had often puzzled the Pharisees, and hoped they should nonplus Christ with it, showing the absurdity of the doctrine of the resurrection, an article which they denied; as it follows, which say, that there is no resurrection of the dead : they denied that there were angels and spirits, and the immortality of the soul; they affirmed, that the soul died with the body, and that there was no... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:24

Saying, master ,.... Rabbi, or doctor, as he was usually called; Moses said , in Deuteronomy 25:5 if a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother ; which, though not expressed in the self same words, yet is the sense of the passage referred to, and was a practice in use before the times of Moses, as appears from the case of Er and Onan; the design of which was, to preserve families, and keep their inheritances distinct and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:25

Now there were with us seven brethren ,.... That is, there was in the city, town or neighbourhood, where these Sadducees dwelt, probably at Jerusalem, a family, in which were seven sons, all brethren by the father's side; for brethren by the mother's side were not counted brethren, nor obliged by this law F1 Maimon. Hilch. Yebum, c. 1. sect. 7. ; whether this was a reigned case which is here and in the following verses put, or whether it was real fact, which is possible, it matters... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:26

Likewise the second also ,.... The eldest of the surviving brethren, having married his brother's wife, after sometime died also without children, and left her to his next brother to marry her; and the third brother accordingly did marry her, and in process of time died likewise, leaving no issue behind him; and thus they went on in course, unto the seventh: the fourth, fifth, and sixth, married her in turn, and so did the seventh; and all died in the same circumstances, having no children... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:27

And last of all the woman died also. A widow and childless, having never married another person but these seven brethren; and the case with them being alike, no one having any child by her, upon which any peculiar claim to her could be formed, the following question is put. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:28

Therefore in the resurrection ,.... As asserted by the Pharisees and by Christ, supposing that there will be such a thing, though not granting it; for these men denied it, wherefore the Ethiopic version reads it hypothetically, "if therefore the dead will be raised"; upon such a supposition, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her , or were married to her. By putting this question, they thought to have got some advantage against Christ, and in favour of their notion;... read more

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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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