Charles Ellicott Commentary Matthew 22:34

"But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together." — Matthew 22:34 (ASV)

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 in its wider use, it retains the sense of putting people to a coerced and unwilling silence (Compare 1 Peter 2:15).