We know not (ουκ οιδαμεν). It was for the purpose of getting out of the trap into which they had fallen by challenging the authori…

And they come again to Jerusalem.—See Notes on Matthew 21:23-27. Peculiar to St. Mark is the fact that our Lord was “walk…

Theophylact of Ohrid: They were angry with the Lord for having cast out of the temple those who had made it a place of merc…

This question of Jesus proved too much for them. Either alternative —“from heaven” or “from men”—would place them in a difficult position. An admis…

And they answered and said to Jesus
Being reduced by this dilemma to the greatest strait and difficulty;