Matthew 22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:20

Whose is this image and superscription? - He knew well enough whose they were; but he showed the excellency of his wisdom, 3dly, in making them answer to their own confusion. They came to ensnare our Lord in his discourse, and now they are ensnared in their own. He who digs a pit for his neighbor ordinarily falls into it himself. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:21

They say unto him, Caesars - The image was the head of the emperor; the superscription, his titles. Julius Caesar was the first who caused his image to be struck on the Roman coin. Tiberius was emperor at this time. Render therefore unto Caesar - The conclusion is drawn from their own premises. You acknowledge this to be Caesar's coin; this coin is current, in your land; the currency of this coin shows the country to be under the Roman government; and your acknowledgment that it is... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:22

When they had heard these words, they marvelled - And well they might - never man spake like this man. By this decision, Caesar is satisfied - he gets his own to the uttermost farthing. God is glorified - his honor is in every respect secured. And the People are edified - one of the most difficult questions that could possibly come before them is answered in such a way as to relieve their consciences, and direct their conduct. See L'Evangile Medite, and see my discourse entitled, The Rights... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:23

The same day - Malice is ever active; let it be defeated ever so often, it returns to the charge. Jesus and his Gospel give no quarter to vice; the vicious will give no quarter to him or it. The Sadducees - For an account of these see on Matthew 16:1 ; (note). read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:24

Raise up seed unto his brother - This law is mentioned Deuteronomy 25:5 . The meaning of the expression is, that the children produced by this marriage should be reckoned in the genealogy of the deceased brother, and enjoy his estates. The word seed should be always translated children or posterity. There is a law precisely similar to this among the Hindoos. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:25

Seven brethren - It is very likely that the Sadducees increased the number, merely to make the question the more difficult. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:28

Whose wife shall she be of the seven? - The rabbins have said, That if a woman have two husbands in this world, she shall have the first only restored to her in the world to come. Sohar. Genes. fol. 24. The question put by these bad men is well suited to the mouth of a libertine. Those who live without God in the world have no other god than the world; and those who have not that happiness which comes from the enjoyment of God have no other pleasure than that which comes from the... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:29

Ye do err - Or, Ye are deceived - by your impure passions: not knowing the scriptures, which assert the resurrection: - nor the miraculous power of God ( την δυναμιν του Θεου ) by which it is to be effected. In Avoda Sara, fol. 18, Sanhedrin, fol. 90, it is said: "These are they which shall have no part in the world to come: Those who say, the Lord did not come from heaven; and those who say, the resurrection cannot be proved out of the law." Their deception appeared in their supposing,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:31

Have ye not read - This quotation is taken from Exodus 3:6 , Exodus 3:16 ; and as the five books of Moses were the only part of Scripture which the Sadducees acknowledged as Divine, our Lord, by confuting them from those books, proved the second part of his assertion, "Ye are ignorant of those very scriptures which ye profess to hold sacred." read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham - Let it be observed, that Abraham was dead upwards of 300 years before these words were spoken to Moses: yet still God calls himself the God of Abraham, etc. Now Christ properly observes that God is not the God of the dead, (that word being equal, in the sense of the Sadducees, to an eternal annihilation), but of the living; it therefore follows that, if he be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, these are not dead, but alive; alive with God, though they had ceased,... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:28

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 22:32

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