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LUKE CHAPTER 20
Luk_20:1-8 Christ silences those who questioned his authority.
Luk_20:9-18 The parable of the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen.
Luk_20:19-26 The chief priests and scribes seek matter against
him: his reply to their insidious question
concerning: paying tribute to Caesar.
Luk_20:27-40 He confuteth the Sadducees concerning the resurrection.
Luk_20:41-44 He propounds a difficulty concerning the character of Christ.
Luk_20:45-47 He warns his disciples against the ambition and
hypocrisy of the scribes.
Ver. 1,2. We have along the history of the gospel observed, that the scribes and Pharisees took all advantages imaginable against our Saviour: failing in all their acts, they now come to question his authority, which seemeth not so much to have respect to his preaching, as to his act in casting of the buyers and sellers out of the temple; for as to preaching, they seem, by the history of Scripture, to have given a great liberty, especially if any had the repute of a prophet.