Anf-03 v.iv.v.xix Pg 18
Luke xx. 20.
), so, when it makes no mention of temptation, it does not admit the interpretation of temptation. However, although I do not allow this sense, I may as well ask, by way of a superfluous refutation, for the reasons of the alleged temptation, To what purpose could they have tempted Him by naming His mother and His brethren? If it was to ascertain whether He had been born or not—when was a question raised on this point, which they must resolve by tempting Him in this way? Who could doubt His having been born, when they4200 4200 Singular in the original, but (to avoid confusion) here made plural.
saw Him before them a veritable man?—whom they had heard call Himself “Son of man?”—of whom they doubted whether He were God or Son of God, from seeing Him, as they did, in the perfect garb of human quality?—supposing Him rather to be a prophet, a great one indeed,4201 4201
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.iii Pg 1.6
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 20
VERSE (20) - Ps 37:32,33; 38:12 Isa 29:20,21 Jer 11:19; 18:18; 20:10
