No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
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No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
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And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth axe him eny moo questions.
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And none could answere him a worde, neither durst any from that day foorth aske him any moe questions.
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Passages linked to Matthew 22:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.
- Luke 20:40 They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
- Luke 14:6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.
- Job 32:15-16 “They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say. Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
- Isaiah 50:2-9 Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.” The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
- Matthew 21:27 They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
- 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.
- John 8:7-9 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
- Acts 4:14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 46 And no man was able to answer him…
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Ver. 46. And no man was able to answer] Though they were subtle sophisters, and mighty in the Scriptures, yet they had nothing to oppose. Magna est veritas, et valebit. Great is the truth, and shall prevail.
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Neither durst any man, &c.] How easily can God button up the mouths of our busiest adversaries, yea, and plead for us in their consciences, as he did for Mr Bradford and many more of the martyrs, whom as they could not out reason, so neither could they but conceive well of the martyr’s innocence, triumphing in their persecutors’ consciences.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Neither durst any question him any more - Not…
Neither durst any question him any more - Not by way of ensnaring or tempting him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 46. Neither durst any - ask him any…
Verse 46. Neither durst any - ask him any more questions.] "Thus," says Dr. Wotton, "our Lord put the four great sects of the Jews to silence, in one day, successively. The Herodians and Pharisees wanted to know whether they might lawfully pay tribute to Caesar or not. The Sadducees were inquisitive to know whose wife the woman should be of the seven brethren, in the resurrection, who had her to wife. Then comes the scribe, (or karaite,) who owned no authority beyond or besides the written law, and asked which was the great commandment in the law. This lawyer deserves to be mentioned here, because he not only acquiesced in, but commended, what our Lord had said in answer to his question." Wotton's Miscellaneous Discourses, vol. i. p. 78.
The Pharisees and Herodians were defeated, Mt 22:15-22. The Sadducees were confounded, Mt 22:29-33. The lawyers or karaites nonplussed, Mt 22:37-40. And the Pharisees, &c., finally routed, Mt 22:41-46. Thus did the wisdom of God triumph over the cunning of men.
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From this time, we do not find that our Lord was any more troubled with their captious questions: their whole stock, it appears, was expended, and now they coolly deliberate on the most effectual way to get him murdered. He that resists the truth of God is capable of effecting the worst purpose of Satan.
The very important subjects of this chapter have been so amply discussed in the notes, and applied so particularly to their spiritual uses, that it does not appear necessary to add any thing by way of practical improvement. The explanation of the great command of the law is particularly recommended to the reader's notice. See on Mt 22:36-40.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 46. Ask him any more questions — This closes…
46. Ask him any more questions — This closes his debate with them, and closes all earthly debate with these his enemies forever. Next he is brought before their judgment seat; and last they are to be brought before his judgment bar. So men gainsay him here to meet their doom hereafter.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 46. The Psalm was always regarded by the Jews…
46. The Psalm was always regarded by the Jews as Messianic, hence their silence and inability to answer without acknowledging the divinity of Jesus.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain No man was able to answer him a word.…
No man was able to answer him a word. They could not confute Christ"s arguments; they would not receive and ponder them; so they held their peace. Had they had a real desire to be instructed, they would have profited by the present occasion; coming to the light with honest and good hearts, they would have been enlightened. But this was far from their wish, so they went away empty. Neither durst any man. They perceived that they could gain no advantage over Christ by such methods of attack. Pharisees, Herodians, Sadducees, had ignominiously succumbed; to make a fresh assault was to court a fresh defeat, Seeing this, they dared no longer tempt him in this way. Henceforward they would use other tactics. Treachery and violence must now play their part. These weapons would be more successful in compassing the destruction of the innocent Victim.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 46. No man was able, etc. Henceforth the Pharisees…
46. No man was able, etc. Henceforth the Pharisees argued no more, but only sought his death.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 22:46 No one could answer him because they had…
22:46 No one could answer him because they had never thought the Messiah would be God as a human being in the flesh (see John 1:1-14).
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