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Luke 20:9 open_in_new
A long time — It was a long time from the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan to the birth of Christ. Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1.
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Luke 20:16 open_in_new
He will destroy these husbandmen — Probably he pointed to the scribes, chief priests, and elders: who allowed, he will miserably destroy those wicked men, Matthew 21:41; but could not bear that this should be applied to themselves. They might also mean, God forbid that we should be guilty of such a crime as your parable seems to charge us with, namely, rejecting and killing the heir. Our Saviour answers, But yet will ye do it, as is prophesied of you.
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Luke 20:17 open_in_new
He looked on them — To sharpen their attention. Psalms 118:22.
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Luke 20:20 open_in_new
Just men — Men of a tender conscience. To take hold of his discourse — If he answered as they hoped he would. Matthew 22:16; Mark 12:12.
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Luke 20:21 open_in_new
Thou speakest — In private, and teachest — In public.
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Luke 20:24 open_in_new
Show me a penny — A Roman penny, which was the money that was usually paid on that occasion.
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Luke 20:26 open_in_new
They could not take hold of his words before the people — As they did afterward before the sanhedrim, in the absence of the people, Luke 22:67, &c.
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Luke 20:34 open_in_new
The children of this world — The inhabitants of earth, marry and are given in marriage — As being all subject to the law of mortality; so that the species is in need of being continually repaired.
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Luke 20:35 open_in_new
But they who obtain that world — Which they enter into, before the resurrection of the dead.
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Luke 20:36 open_in_new
They are the children of God — In a more eminent sense when they rise again.
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Luke 20:37 open_in_new
That the dead are raised, even Moses, as well as the other prophets showed, when he calleth — That is, when he recites the words which God spoke of himself, I am the God of Abraham, Matthew 22:32. It cannot properly be said, that God is the God of any who are totally perished. Exodus 3:6.
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Luke 20:38 open_in_new
He is not a God of the dead, or, there is no God of the dead — That is, tho term God implies such a relation, as cannot possibly subsist between him and the dead; who in the Sadducees' sense are extinguished spirits; who could neither worship him, nor receive good from him. So that all live to him — All who have him for their God, live to and enjoy him. This sentence is not an argument for what went before; but the proposition which was to be proved. And the consequence is apparently just. For as all the faithful are the children of Abraham, and the Divine promise of being a God to him and his seed is entailed upon them, it implies their continued existence and happiness in a future state as much as Abraham's. And as the body is an essential part of man, it implies both his resurrection and theirs; and so overthrows the entire scheme of the Sadducean doctrine.
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Luke 20:40 open_in_new
They durst not ask him any question — The Sadducees durst not. One of the scribes did, presently after.