They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
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They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
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And they coulde not reprove his sayinge before the people. But they marvayled at his answer and helde their peace.
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And they could not reproue his saying before the people: but they marueiled at his answere, and helde their peace.
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Passages linked to Luke 20:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 20:20 They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
- Job 5:12-13 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- Proverbs 26:4-5 Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
- Matthew 22:12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
- Matthew 22:22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
- Matthew 22:34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
- Luke 13:17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
- Luke 20:39-40 Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.” They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- 2 Timothy 3:8-9 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
- Titus 1:10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain There were therefore seven brethren,.... In the place where…
There were therefore seven brethren,.... In the place where these Sadducees dwelt; or, however, that were known by them; at least they supposed such a case, and it might be fact:
and the first took a wife, and died without children; son or daughter, and so had none to keep up his name, and to possess his inheritance.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They could not take hold of his words before…
They could not take hold of his words before the people - As they did afterward before the sanhedrim, in the absence of the people, chap. xxii, 67.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain We may here be astonished at the incredulity of…
We may here be astonished at the incredulity of the chiefs of the Jews, who, though they ought to have admired his wisdom, as something divine, and believed in him, are only surprised that he should have escaped their duplicity and snares. (Ven. Bede) --- Their pride must have been a good deal hurt, to have been thus publicly refuted and confused by the wisdom of our Saviour’s answer. (Theophylactus)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. they marvelled at his answer] Comp. Luk_2:47. They…
26. they marvelled at his answer] Comp. Luk_2:47. They thought that escape was impossible for Him; and yet He instantly shatters their deeply-laid plot to pieces by shewing that they—Pharisees and Herodians alike—had absolutely decided the question already (according to their own rule “He whose coin is current is king of the land”), so that there is no need for Him to give any opinion whatever about it. The point was this,—their national acceptance of Caesar’s coinage was an unanswerable admission of Caesar’s right. Tribute to them was no longer a cheerful offering, but a legal due; not a voluntary gift, but a political necessity. The very word He used was decisive. They had asked “Is it lawful to give (dounai)?” He answers, ‘Give back’ (apodote). By using these coins they all alike admitted that ‘they had no king but Caesar.’ The Christians understood the principle perfectly (1Pe_2:13-14) as the ancient Jews had done (Jer_27:4-8). Yet these hypocrites dared to shout three days afterwards that Jesus ‘had forbidden to give tribute to Caesar!’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) And they could not take hold of his…
(26) And they could not take hold of his words.—As St. Luke is fuller in his account of the plot of the questioners (Luk_20:20), so is he in that of its defeat.
They marvelled at his answer.—There is an interesting, though obviously undesigned, parallelism with the narrative of the incident in which the Lord Jesus was first brought face to face with the Rabbis of Jerusalem. Then also “they were astonished at His answers” (Luk_2:47). The childhood was, in this respect, a prophecy of the manhood.
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