He had put the Sadducees to silence (εφιμωσεν τους Σαδδουκαιους). Muzzled the Sadducees. The Pharisees could not restrain their gl…

The Pharisees—were gathered together. That is, either to rejoice that their great rivals, the Sadducees, had been so completely silenced, …

Had put the Sadducees to silence — The primary meaning of the Greek verb is to stop a person’s power of speaking with a gag. Even …

The multitude that had listened to Christ, and had been “astonished” at His answers to the Sadducees, would soon publish the news of their defeat. …

St. Jerome: The Pharisees, having been refuted in the matter of the denarius and now seeing their adversaries also overthrown…

Matthew portrays this confrontation as owing something to the machinations of the Pharisees, who saw how Jesus had silenced the Sadducees.

Although I think that this narrative bears only a resemblance to what is related by Matthew in Matthew 22 and by Mark in Mark 12, and that they are…

But when the Pharisees had heard
Either with their own ears, they being some of them present: or rather from the rel…

An interpreter of the law asked our Lord a question, to test, not so much his knowledge, as his judgment. The love of God is the first and great co…

Previously, the Lord answered the question concerning the payment of tribute and the question about the resurrection. Here, however, He answers a q…