35And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
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And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? …
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, …
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-40)Here, I. Christ shows the people how weak and defective the scribes were in their preaching, and how unable to solve the difficulties that occurred in the scriptures of the Old Testament, which they undertook to expound. Of this he gives an instance, which is not so fully related here as it was in Matthew. Christ was teaching in the temple : many things he said, which were not written; but notice…
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