34And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. …
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-34)The scribes and Pharisees were (however bad otherwise) enemies to the Sadducees; now one would have expected that, when they heard Christ argue so well against the Sadducees, they would have countenanced him, as they did Paul when he appeared against the Sadducees (Acts 23:9); but it had not the effect: because he did not fall in with them in the ceremonials of religion, he agreeing with them in t…
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