But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were assembled about him.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
They were gathered together - Επι το αυτο - they came together with one accord, or, for the same purpose; i.e. of ensnaring him in his discourse, as the Sadducees had done, Matthew 22:23. The Codex Bezae and several of the Itala have επ' αυτον, against him. Camen togidre into oon. - Old MS. Eng, Bib.
Jesus converses with a Pharisee respecting the law - See also Mark 12:28-34.
Matthew 22:34
The Pharisees ... were gathered together - That is, either to rejoice that their great rivals, the Sadducees, had been so completely silenced, or to lay a new plan for ensnaring him, or perhaps both. They would rejoice that the Sadducees had been confounded, but they would not be the less desirous to involve Jesus in difficulty. They therefore endeavored, probably, to find the most difficult question in dispute among themselves, and proposed it to him to perplex him.
22:34 12:28 ; Luke 10:25.