Luke 20:1

On one of the days while he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the gospel, there came up the priest and the Scribes with the elders.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,

In Context

2They spoke to him saying. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things? Who is it that gave you this authority?"

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Cross References

Matthew 26:55Then Jesus said to the crowds. "Are you come out as against a robber, with swords and staves to arrest me? Day after day, I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not apprehend me.

Luke 8:1It happened shortly afterwards that he began to go from town to town and village to village, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God.

John 18:20Jesus answered him. "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, places where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

Acts 6:12The elders and the scribes rushed upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the Sanhedrin.

Matthew Henry on Luke 20:1

In this chapter we have, I. Christ's answer to the chief priests' question concerning his authority, ver. 1-8 . II. The parable of the vineyard let out to the unjust and rebellious husbandmen, ver. 9-19 . III. Christ's answer to the question proposed to him concerning the lawfulness of paying tribute to Cæsar, ver. 20-26 . IV. His vindication of that great fundamental doctrine of the Jewish and Christian institutes—the resurrection of the dead and the future state, from the foolish cavils of the Sadducees, ver.… Read the whole commentary →

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