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Mat_22:34. The following conversation respecting the great commandment is given in Mar_12:28 ff. with such characteristic detail, that Matthew’s account cannot fail to have the appearance of being incomplete, and, considering the bias of the incident (see note on Mat_22:35), to look as if it represented a corrupt tradition. In Luk_10:25 ff. there is a similar conversation, which, however, is not given as another version of that now before us, but as connected with a different incident that took place some time before.
οἱ δὲ Φαρις .] Comp. Mat_22:15. They had already been baffled, and had withdrawn into the background (Mat_22:22); but the victory of Jesus over the Sadducees provoked them to make one more attempt, not to avenge the defeat of those Sadducees (Strauss), nor to display their own superiority over them (Ebrard, Lange),—neither view being hinted at in the text, or favoured by anything analogous elsewhere,—but, as was the object in every such challenge, to tempt Jesus, if that were at all possible, to give such an answer as might be used against Him, see Mat_22:35.
ἀκούσαντες ] whether while present (among the multitude), or when absent, through the medium, perhaps, of their spies, cannot be determined.
συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό ] for the purpose of concerting measures for a new attack. Consequently the νομικός of Mat_22:35 had to be put forward, and, while the conversation between Jesus and him is going on, the parties who had deputed him gather round the speakers, Mat_22:41. There is, accordingly, no reason to apprehend any discrepancy (Köstlin) between the present verse and Mat_22:41.
ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό ] locally, not said with reference to their sentiments. See on Act_1:15; Psa_2:2.