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Matthew 22:16

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master we knowe that thou are true and teachest the waye of god trulie nether carest for eny man for thou consydrest not menes estate.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And they sent vnto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the way of God truely, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the person of men.

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Cross-references (35)

Passages linked to Matthew 22:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Mark 3:6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
  • Mark 8:15 He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
  • Mark 12:14 When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
  • Luke 20:21 They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
  • Job 32:21-22 Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.
  • Jeremiah 9:3-5 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh. “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
  • John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
  • 1 John 5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
  • Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
  • Psalms 12:2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
  • Psalms 55:21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
  • Proverbs 29:5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Isaiah 59:13-15 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter. Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
  • Ezekiel 33:30-31 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’ They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
  • Micah 3:9-12 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.” Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  • Malachi 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
  • Malachi 2:9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
  • Matthew 16:11-12 How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  • Matthew 22:24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’
  • Matthew 22:26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
  • Matthew 26:18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”
  • Matthew 26:49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
  • Mark 10:17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
  • Luke 7:40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”
  • 2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
  • 2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
  • Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
  • Galatians 2:6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
  • James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
  • Deuteronomy 33:9 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
  • 1 Kings 22:14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain They which with Herod made a new religion patched…

They which with Herod made a new religion patched together of the heathenish and the Jewish religion.

Thou art not moved with any appearance and outward show.

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Truly and sincerely.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Mark hath the same, Mar 12:14. So hath Luke,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But Jesus perceived their wickedness,.... Luke says, "their craftiness";…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Herodians were a set of men peculiarly attached…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. The Herodians] For an account of this…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The Herodians. That is, some that belonged to Herod,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Herodians — The Herodians were a political party…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. their disciples with the Herodians] An unnatural coalition,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) With the Herodians.—The party thus described are known…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Their disciples. Men of their own party, or students…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 16. Sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians.…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 22:16 The Pharisees, strict nationalists who resented Roman rule,…

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