Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He had put the Sadducees to silence (efimwsen touv Saddoukaiouv). Muzzled the Sadducees. The Pharisees could not restrain their glee though they were joining with the Sadducees in trying to entrap Jesus.
Gathered themselves together (sunhxqhsan epi to auto). First aorist passive, were gathered together. Epi to auto explains more fully sun-. See also Acts 2:47. "Mustered their forces" (Moffatt).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 22:34:
Mark 1:25
Mark 12:28
Luke 10:27
Acts 1:15
1 Corinthians 9:9
1 John 3:23
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