Luke 20:5
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
But and if we say of men,..... Which they had a good will to, against the dictates of their own consciences:
all the people will stone us; meaning the common people, that were then in the temple…
In this passage of story nothing is added here to what we had in the other evangelists; but only in the first verse, where we are told,
I. That he was now teaching the people in the temple, and…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
they reasoned with themselves They went aside to discuss together what answer they should give. This deliberation rendered their confession of ignorance more glaring and more fatal to their…
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