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Mar 12:13-40. Entangling questions about tribute, the resurrection, and the great commandment, with the replies - Christ baffles the Pharisees by a question about David, and denounces the Scribes. ( = Mat 22:15-46; Luk 20:20-47).
The time of this section appears to be still the third day (Tuesday) of Christ’s last week. Matthew introduces the subject by saying (Mat 22:15), “Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might entangle Him in His talk.”
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees - “their disciples,” says Matthew (Mat 22:16); probably young and zealous scholars in that hardening school.
and of the Herodians - (See on Mat 12:14). In Luk 20:20 these willing tools are called “spies, which should feign themselves just [righteous] men, that they might take hold of His words, that so they might deliver Him unto the power and authority of the governor.” Their plan, then, was to entrap Him into some expression which might be construed into disaffection to the Roman government; the Pharisees themselves being notoriously discontented with the Roman yoke.