The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 12:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Then the Pharisees went out ( ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱφαρισαῖοι). Probably at once, before the service was over. Note the emphatic position of ἐξελθόντες. They will no longer stay in the same building with one who does such a thing, and held a council; and tool: counsel; cf.

Matthew 22:15; Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:7; Matthew 28:12. Against him, how they might destroy him. We learn from Mark that the Herodians also took part in the deliberation. Professor Marshall suggests a too ingenious reconciliation of this verse and its parallels, in three details, by suggesting an Aramaic original which would explain the divergences.

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