Matthew Chapter 22 verse 34 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 22:34

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
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BBE Matthew 22:34

But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;
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DARBY Matthew 22:34

But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.
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KJV Matthew 22:34

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
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WBT Matthew 22:34


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WEB Matthew 22:34

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
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YLT Matthew 22:34

and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 34-40. - Fourth attack: The Pharisees question concerning the great, commandment. (Mark 12:28-34.) Verse 34. - He had put the Sadducees to silence (ἐφίμωσεν, as ver. 12). The Pharisees were informed of, and some of them had witnessed, the discomfiture of the Sadducees (see Luke 20:40); hence they deemed it necessary again to attack Jesus by asking a question which specially appertained to their own teaching. They felt that, if they were ever to compass his overthrow, they must first lower his credit with the people, so that these might no longer care to support or defend him. To succeed in entangling Jesus in a difficulty would not only effect this, but would also gain them a triumph over their adversaries, who had been so completely defeated. Were gathered together; ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ, Which may mean, "to the same place," as perhaps Acts 2:1; or "on the same ground, for the same purpose." The former is probably correct. The English versions omit the words (see the rendering of ver. 41, where ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ does not occur). They grouped themselves around Christ, or else gathered in a council chamber, taking combined action against him.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(34) Had put the Sadducees to silence.--The primary meaning of the Greek verb is to stop a man's power of speaking with a gag, and even in its wider use it retains the sense of putting men to a coerced and unwilling silence. (Comp. 1Peter 2:15.)