My Notes
Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
Beware of the Scribes,.... And also of the Pharisees; for they are joined together in Matthew:
which desire to walk in long robes: the rule for the length of a scholar's garment was this (a);
"his…
Adam Clarke
They durst not ask - Or, did not venture to ask any other question, for fear of being again confounded, as they had already been.
The scribes were students in the law, and expositors of it to the people, men in reputation for wisdom and honour, but the generality of them were enemies to Christ and his gospel. Now here we have…
Cambridge Bible
they durst not ask him any question The total collapse of their stratagems enhanced our Lord's peril, by shewing how impossible it was for these rich and learned "pupils of the wise" to pose…