Luke 20:45

Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(45-47) Then in the audience of all the people.—Better, in the hearing. See Notes on Matthew 23, especially Luke 20:6-7, and Mark 12:38-40. St. Luke’s report agrees almost verbally with the latter.

Chief rooms.—Better, chief places.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:39-47 The scribes commended the reply Christ made to the Sadducees about the resurrection, but they were silenced by a question concerning the Messiah. Christ, as God, was David's Lord; but Christ, as man, was David's son. The scribes would receive the severest judgement for defrauding the poor widows, and for their abuse of religion, particularly of prayer, which they used as a pretence for carrying on worldly and wicked plans. Dissembled piety is double sin. Then let us beg of God to keep us from pride, ambition, covetousness, and every evil thing; and to teach us to seek that honour which comes from him alone.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Matthew 23:1.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Lu 20:41-47. Christ Baffles the Pharisees by a Question about David and Messiah, and Denounces the Scribes.

41. said, &c.—"What think ye of Christ [the promised and expected Messiah]? Whose son is He [to be]? They say unto Him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit [by the Holy Ghost, Mr 12:36] call Him Lord?" (Mt 22:42, 43). The difficulty can only be solved by the higher and lower—the divine and human natures of our Lord (Mt 1:23). Mark the testimony here given to the inspiration of the Old Testament (compare Lu 24:44).

Matthew Poole's Commentary

Ver. 45-47. We have met with all this before, See Poole on "Luke 11:43". See Poole on "Matthew 23:6". See Poole on "Matthew 23:7". See Poole on "Mark 12:38", and following verses to Mark 12:40.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then in the audience of all the people,.... Whilst they were about him, and hearing him, and for their sakes too;

he said unto his disciples; yea, he spake to the multitude, as well as to the disciples, as appears from Matthew 23:1.

Geneva Study Bible

Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Meyer's NT Commentary

Luke 20:45-47. See on Matthew 23:1; Matthew 23:6-7; Matthew 23:14; Mark 12:38-40; which latter Luke closely follows after he has proceeded with considerable abbreviation in Luke 20:41-44.

Expositor's Greek Testament

Luke 20:45-47. Warning against the scribes (Mark 12:38-40).—Either a mere fragment of the larger whole in Matthew 23, or the original nucleus around which Mt. has gathered much kindred matter—the former more likely.

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

45. in the audience of all the people] Rather, while all the people were listening. Here followed the final rupture of Jesus with the authorities—political, social, and religious—of His nation. They had now made their own condemnation inevitable, and had justly provoked that great Denunciation on which (as less intelligible to Gentiles) St Luke here only touches. But he has given it in part before (Luke 11:39-52) in his account of the hostile banquet at the house of a Pharisee. In St Matthew it occupies, with its rhythmic grandeur and awfully solemn condemnation, the whole of the twenty-third chapter.

Bengel's Gnomen

[45. Παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ, all the people) To give public warning against dangerous men, is a duty in the highest degree necessary to be discharged.—V. g.]

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 45-47. - St. Luke's brief summary of the Lord's denunciation of the scribes and others. Verses 45, 46. - Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, Beware of the scribes. Here, in St. Matthew, follows the great denunciation of the Sanhedrist authorities with the other rabbis, Pharisees, and public teachers and leaders of the people. It fills the whole of the twenty-third chapter of the First Gospel. The details would be scarcely interesting to St. Luke's Gentile readers, so be thus briefly summarizes them. Which desire to walk in long robes. "With special conspicuousness of fringes (Numbers 15:38-40). 'The supreme tribunal,' said R. Nachman, 'will duly punish hypocrites who wrap their talliths round them to appear, what they are not, true Pharisees '" (Farrar). Luke 20:45