Matthew - 22:46



46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.

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Explanation and meaning of Matthew 22:46.

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And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to question him any more.
And no one was able to answer him a word, nor durst any from that day question him any more.
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him.
And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.
And no one was able to respond to him a word. And neither did anyone dare, from that day forward, to question him.
No one could say a word in answer; nor did anyone after that day venture to question him further.

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Neither durst any - ask him any more questions - "Thus," says Dr. Wotton, "our Lord put the four great sects of the Jews to silence, in one day, successively. The Herodians and Pharisees wanted to know whether they might lawfully pay tribute to Caesar or not. The Sadducees were inquisitive to know whose wife the woman should be of the seven brethren, in the resurrection, who had her to wife. Then comes the scribe, (or karaite), who owned no authority beyond or besides the written law, and asked which was the great commandment in the law. This lawyer deserves to be mentioned here, because he not only acquiesced in, but commended, what our Lord had said in answer to his question." Wotton's Miscellaneous Discourses, vol. i. p. 78.
The Pharisees and Herodians were defeated, Matthew 22:15-22. The Sadducees were confounded, Matthew 22:29-33. The lawyers or karaites nonplussed, Matthew 22:37-40. And the Pharisees, etc., finally routed, Matthew 22:41-46. Thus did the wisdom of God triumph over the cunning of men.
From this time, we do not find that our Lord was any more troubled with their captious questions: their whole stock, it appears, was expended, and now they coolly deliberate on the most effectual way to get him murdered. He that resists the truth of God is capable of effecting the worst purpose of Satan.
The very important subjects of this chapter have been so amply discussed in the notes, and applied so particularly to their spiritual uses, that it does not appear necessary to add any thing by way of practical improvement. The explanation of the great command of the law is particularly recommended to the reader's notice. See on Matthew 22:36-40 (note).

And no man was able to answer him a word,.... They saw the dilemma they were reduced to, either to acknowledge the deity of the Messiah, or confess their ignorance; and neither of them they cared to do, and therefore judged it to be the wisest part to be silent.
Neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions: neither Pharisees nor Sadducees, for the same is observed by Luke 20:40 of the Sadducees particularly, and was true of all sorts, and every sect, of men among them: and thus our Lord was freed from a cavilling, captious, and troublesome generation of men, from this time forward, to the time of his sufferings, which was not very long after; for this was the third day before the passover, as appears from Matthew 26:1.

No man was able, etc. Henceforth the Pharisees argued no more, but only sought his death.

Neither durst any question him any more - Not by way of ensnaring or tempting him.

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