Luke 20
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Chapter 20
| 20:1 | Matthew 21:23 ; Mr 11:27. |
| 20:9 | A long time - It was a long time from the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan to the birth of Christ. Matthew 21:33 ; Mr 12:1. |
| 20:16 | 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 beapplied 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. |
| 20:17 | He looked on them - To sharpen their attention. Psalms 118:22 . |
| 20:18 | Matthew 21:45 . |
| 20:20 | Just men - Men of a tender conscience. To take hold of his discourse - If he answered as they hoped he would. Matthew 22:16 ; Mr 12:12. |
| 20:21 | Thou speakest - In private, and teachest - In public. |
| 20:24 | Show me a penny - A Roman penny, which was the money that was usually paid on that occasion. |
| 20:26 | 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. |
| 20:27 | Matthew 22:23 ; Mr 12:18. |
| 20:28 | 25:5 . |
| 20:34 | 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. |
| 20:35 | But they who obtain that world - Which they enter into, before the resurrection of the dead. |
| 20:36 | They are the children of God - In a more eminent sense when they rise again. |
| 20:37 | 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, .It cannot properly be said, that God is the God of any who are totally perished. Exodus 3:6 . |
| 20:38 | 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 possiblysubsist 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. |
| 20:40 | They durst not ask him any question - The Sadducees durst not.One of the scribes did, presently after. |
| 20:41 | Matthew 22:41 ; Mr 12:35. |
| 20:42 | Psalms 110:1 . |
| 20:46 | Matthew 23:5 . |
| 20:47 | Matthew 23:14 . |