the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Matthew 22:33
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When the people heard this, they were amazed at Jesus' teaching.
And when the people hearde that they were astonyed at his doctrine.
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When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
When the people heard this, they were amazed at Jesus' teaching.
And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
And when the multitude heard [this], they were astonished at his doctrine.
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. And the multitude hearing it, were astonished at his doctrine.
All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.
And the puple herynge, wondriden in his techynge.
And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
The crowds were surprised to hear what Jesus was teaching.
And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
And the people hearing it were surprised at his teaching.
When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded;
And when the crowds heard [it] they were astonished at his doctrine.
And when the multitudes heard, they were wonder-struck at his doctrine.
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And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
When the crowds heard him, they were astounded at his teaching.
When the people heard this, they were surprised and wondered about His teaching.
And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.
And when the multitude heard it, they were astonied at his doctrine.
And when the people heard it, they were amazed at his teaching.
And, the multitudes, hearing, were being struck with astonishment at his teaching.
And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.
And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
And when the multitudes hearde this, they were astonyed at his doctrine.
When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
And when the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
And hearing, the crowds were astonished at His doctrine.
And having heard, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;
And whan the people herde that, they were astonnyed at his doctryne.
when the people heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
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When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they: Matthew 22:22, Matthew 7:28, Matthew 7:29, Mark 6:2, Mark 12:17, Luke 2:47, Luke 4:22, Luke 20:39, Luke 20:40, John 7:46
Reciprocal: John 7:15 - marvelled
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when the multitude heard this,.... This wise and full answer of Christ to the posing question of the Sadducees, with which perhaps they had puzzled many, and never had met with their match before:
they were astonished at his doctrine; concerning the pure, perfect, and angelic state of the righteous in the world to come;, and how strongly and nervously he proved the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the dead, which were both denied by the Sadducees; and who were so confounded with his answer, proof, and reasonings, that Luke says, "after that they durst not ask him any question at all": and the Scribes were so pleased therewith, that certain of them applauded him, saying, "master, thou hast well said".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Conversation of Jesus with the Sadducees respecting the resurrection - See also Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38.
Matthew 22:23
The same day came the Sadducees - For an account of the Sadducees, see the notes at Matthew 3:7.
No resurrection - The word “resurrection” usually means the raising up the “body” to life after it is dead, John 11:24; John 5:29; 1 Corinthians 15:22. But the Sadducees not only denied this, but also a future state, and the separate existence of the soul after death altogether, as well as the existence of angels and spirits, Acts 23:8. Both these doctrines have commonly stood or fallen together, and the answer of our Saviour respects both, though it more distinctly refers “to the separate existence of the soul, and to a future state of rewards and punishments,” than to the resurrection of the body.
Matthew 22:24
Saying, Master, Moses said ... - Deuteronomy 25:5-6. This law was given by Moses in order to keep the families and tribes of the Israelites distinct, and to perpetuate them.
Raise up seed unto his brother - That is, the children shall be reckoned in the genealogy of the deceased brother; or, to all civil purposes, shall be considered as his.
Matthew 22:25-28
There were with us seven brethren - It is probable that they stated a case as difficult as possible; and though no such case might have occurred, yet it was supposable, and in their view it presented a real difficulty.
The difficulty arose from the fact, that they supposed that, substantially, the same state of things must take place in the other world as here; that if there is such a world, husbands and wives must be there reunited; and they professed not to be able to see how one woman could be the wife of seven men.
Matthew 22:29
Ye do err, not knowing ... - They had taken a wrong view of the doctrine of the resurrection.
It was not taught that people would marry there. The “Scriptures,” here, mean the books of the Old Testament. By appealing to them, Jesus showed that the doctrine of the future state was there, and that the Sadducees should have believed it as it was, and not have added the absurd doctrine to it that people must live there as they do here. The way in which the enemies of the truth often attempt to make a doctrine of the Bible ridiculous is by adding to it, and then calling it absurd. The reason why the Saviour produced a passage from the books of Moses Matthew 22:32 was that they had also appealed to his writings, Matthew 22:24. Other places of the Old Testament, in fact, asserted the doctrine more clearly Daniel 12:2; Isaiah 26:19, but he wished to meet them on their own ground. None of those scriptures asserted that people would live there as they do here, and therefore their reasoning was false.
Nor the power of God - They probably denied, as many have done since, that God could gather the scattered dust of the dead and remould it into a body. On this ground they affirmed that the doctrine could not be true - opposing reason to revelation, and supposing that infinite power could not reorganize a body that it had at first organized, and raise a body from its own dust which it had at first raised from nothing.
Matthew 22:30
Neither marry ... - This was a full answer to the objections of the Sadducees.
But are as the angels of God - That is, in the manner of their conversation; in regard to marriage and the mode of their existence.
Luke adds that they shall be “equal with the angels.” That is, they shall be elevated above the circumstances of mortality, and live in a manner and in a kind of conversation similar to that of the angels. It does not imply that they shall be equal in intellect, but only “in the circumstances of their existence,” as that is distinguished from the way in which mortals live. He also adds, “Neither do they die any more, but are the children of God; being the children of the resurrection,” or being accounted worthy to be raised up to life, and therefore “sons of God raised up to him.”
Matthew 22:31, Matthew 22:32
As touching ... - That is, in proof that the dead are raised.
The passage which he quotes is recorded in Exodus 3:6, Exodus 3:15, This was at the burning bush (Mark and Luke). Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had been dead for a long time when Moses spoke this - Abraham for 329 years, Isaac for 224 years, and Jacob for 198 years - yet God spake then as being still “their God.” They must, therefore, be still somewhere living, for God is not the God of the dead; that is, it is absurd to say that God rules over those who are “extinct or annihilated,” but he is the God only of those who have an existence. Luke adds, “all live unto him.” That is, all the righteous dead, all of whom he can be properly called their God, live unto his glory. This passage does not prove directly that the dead “body” would be raised, but only by consequence. It proves that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had an existence then, or that their souls were alive. This the Sadducees denied Acts 23:8, and this was the main point in dispute. If this was admitted - if there was a state of rewards and punishments - then it would easily follow that the bodies of the dead would be raised.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 33. The multitude were astonished at his doctrine. — God uses the infidelity of some for the edification of others. Had no false doctrine been broached in the world, we had not seen the full evidence of the true teaching. The opposition of deists and infidels has only served to raise up men in behalf of the truth of God, who not only have refuted them, but shown, at the same time, that the sacred testimonies are infinitely amiable in themselves, and worthy of all acceptation. Truth always gains by being opposed.
