Matthew 22:25 · Darby Translation
Matthew 22:25 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 22:25 in Other Translations
| KJV | Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: |
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| WEB | Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. |
| ASV | Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother; |
| YLT | ‘And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother; |
| WBT | Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased; and having no issue, left his wife to his brother. |
| DBY | Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his brother. |
Commentary on Matthew 22:25
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen--So Mat 19:30. See on Mat 20:16.
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Questions about Matthew 22:25
What does Matthew 22:25 say?
Matthew 22:25 in the Darby Translation reads: “Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his brother.” Read it in the full context of Matthew 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 22:25 found in the Bible?
Matthew 22:25 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 22, verse 25, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 22:25 shown in?
This is the Darby Translation (DBY), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Matthew 22:25 in the table on this page.
Therefore in the resurrection,.... As asserted by the Pharisees and by Christ, supposing that there will be such a thing, though not granting it; for these men denied it, wherefore the Ethiopic version reads it hypothetically, "if therefore the dead will be raised"; upon such a supposition,
whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her, or were married to her. By putting this question, they thought to have got some advantage against Christ, and in favour of their notion; they hoped, either that he would give into their way of thinking, and relinquish the doctrine of the resurrection upon this, and join with them against the Pharisees, and so there would be no need of an answer to the question; or they judged, that if he returned an answer, it would be either that he did not know whose wife she should be, and then they would traduce him among the common people, as weak and ignorant; or should he say, that she would be the wife of one of them only, naming which of them, or of them all, or of none of them, they fancied that such absurd consequences would follow on each of these, as would expose the doctrine of the resurrection to ridicule and contempt; but they missed their aim, and were sadly disappointed by Christ's answer and reasonings which follow.