Matthew 22:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And when the multitude Which was present in the temple at the time; heard this This unthought-of, and yet convincing argument, together with so complete an answer to a cavil in which the Sadducees were wont to triumph as invincible; they were astonished at his doctrine At the clearness and solidity of his reasoning, and the manifest confutation of a sect whose principles they considered as fundamentally erroneous, and subversive of all piety and virtue.