John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:41
While the Pharisees were gathered together ,.... Or rather, "when" they were gathered together, and while they continued so, before they left him: for this is to be understood not of their gathering together, to consult privately about him; this is expressed before in Matthew 22:34 but of their gathering together about Christ, to hear what answer he would return to the question their learned doctor would put to him: and he having given an answer to that, which the Scribe was obliged to... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Not that all that is contained in the five books of Moses, and in the books of the prophets, and other writings of the Old Testament, is comprehended in, and is reducible to these two precepts; for there are many things delivered by way of promise, written by way of history, &c.; which cannot, by any means, be brought into these two general heads: but that everything respecting duty that is suggested in the law, or is more... read more