Matthew 22:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.)

Matthew 22:34

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.