Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Matthew 22:46

"And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions." — Matthew 22:46 (ASV)

Matthew uses the comment about the silence of Jesus’ opponents in order to finish the entire section of confrontations (21:23–22:46). Many who were silenced were not saved; so Jesus’ enemies went underground for a short time. Yet even their silence was a tribute. The teacher who never attended the right schools confounds the greatest theologians in the land. And if his question (v.45) was unanswerable at this time, a young Pharisee, who may have been in Jerusalem at the time, was to answer it in due course (Romans 1:1–4; Romans 9:5).