Luke 20:46

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 20:39-47

The scribes were students in the law, and expositors of it to the people, men in reputation for wisdom and honour, but the generality of them were enemies to Christ and his gospel. Now here we have some of them attending him, and four things we have in these verses concerning them, which we had before:? I. We have them here commending the reply which Christ made to the Sadducees concerning the resurrection: Certain of the scribes said, Master, thou hast well said, Luke 20:39. Christ had the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 20:45-47

20:45-47 While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, "Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and who love greetings in the market places, and the chief seats in synagogues, and the top place at banquets. They devour widows' houses and pretend to offer long prayers. These will receive the greater condemnation." The honours which the scribes and Rabbis expected to receive were quite extraordinary. They had rules of precedence all carefully drawn up.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:46

Beware of the Scribes ,.... And also of the Pharisees; for they are joined together in Matthew: which desire to walk in long robes : the rule for the length of a scholar's garment was this F1 Maimon Hilch. Dayot, c. 5. sect. 9. Vid. T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 57. 2. & Gloss. in ib. ; "his flesh must not appear under his garments, as the light linen garments, and the like, they make in Egypt; nor must his garments be drawn upon the ground, as the garments of proud men, but must... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 20:46

Beware of the scribes - Take heed that ye be not seduced by those who should show you the way of salvation. See on Matthew 23:4-14 ; (note). How it can be supposed that the ancient Jewish Church had no distinct notion of the resurrection of the dead is to me truly surprising. The justice of God, so peculiarly conspicuous under the old covenant, might have led the people to infer that there must be a resurrection of the dead, if even the passage to which our Lord refers had not made a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:45-46

Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, Beware of the scribes. Here, in St. Matthew, follows the great denunciation of the Sanhedrist authorities with the other rabbis, Pharisees, and public teachers and leaders of the people. It fills the whole of the twenty-third chapter of the First Gospel. The details would be scarcely interesting to St. Luke's Gentile readers, so be thus briefly summarizes them. Which desire to walk in long robes . "With special... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:45-47

St. Luke ' s brief summary of the Lord ' s denunciation of the scribes and others. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 20:45-47

Character and precept, etc. These verses suggest five truths of practical importance. I. THAT CHARACTER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN PRECEPT . "Beware of the scribes;" they "sit in Moses' seat, and teach things that you should do" ( Matthew 23:2 ); but their conduct is such that they are to be avoided rather than sought after. Beware of the bad man, though he be a good teacher; the influence of his life will be stronger than the effect of his doctrine; the one will do... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 20:45-47

See Matthew 23:1. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 20:41-47

Luke 20:41-47. How say they that Christ is David’s son, &c. For an elucidation of these verses, see on Matthew 22:41-46; Matthew 23:5-7; Matthew 23:14; and Mark 12:35-40. David therefore calleth him Lord: how is he then his son “This implies both the existence of David in a future state, and the authority of the Messiah over that invisible world into which that prince was removed by death. Else, how great a monarch soever the Messiah might have been, he could not have been properly... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 20:45-47

129. More about scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23:1-39; Mark 12:38-40; Luke 20:45-47)Instead of teaching only the law of Moses, the scribes and Pharisees added countless laws of their own. Instead of making the people’s load lighter, they made it heavier. People could profit from listening to the scribes’ teaching of Moses’ law, but they were not to copy the scribes’ behaviour (Matthew 23:1-4).Jesus gave two specific reasons for his condemnation of the scribes. First, they wanted to make a... read more

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