Had put the Sadducees to silence. — The primary meaning of the Greek verb is to stop a man’s power of speaking with a gag, and even in its wider use it retains the sense of putting men to a coerced and unwilling silence. (Comp. 1 Peter 2:15.)
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Matthew 22:34
34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.