Matthew 22:40 · Young's Literal Translation
Matthew 22:40 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 22:40 in Other Translations
| KJV | On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. |
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| WEB | The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” |
| ASV | On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets. |
| YLT | on these—the two commands—all the law and the prophets do hang.’ |
| WBT | On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. |
| DBY | On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang. |
Commentary on Matthew 22:40
Expositions from classic Bible commentators.
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 22:40
What does Matthew 22:40 say?
Matthew 22:40 in the Young's Literal Translation reads: “on these—the two commands—all the law and the prophets do hang.’” Read it in the full context of Matthew 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 22:40 found in the Bible?
Matthew 22:40 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 22, verse 40, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 22:40 shown in?
This is the Young's Literal Translation (YLT), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Matthew 22:40 in the table on this page.
He saith unto them,.... Not denying it to be a truth they affirmed; but rather granting and allowing it: he argues upon it, though he tacitly refuses their sense and meaning of the phrase, thus,
how then doth David in spirit call him Lord? that is, if he is a mere man, if he is only the son of David, according to the flesh, if he has no other, or higher descent than from him, how comes it to pass, that David, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, by which he wrote his book of Psalms, see Sa2 23:1 where the passage, after cited, stands, to call him Lord; which supposes him to be more than barely his son, and to be a greater person than himself, one superior in nature and dignity to him? for the phrase "in spirit", is not to be connected with the word Lord; as if the design of it was to show, that the Messiah was Lord, or God, in spirit, or with respect to his divine nature, but, with the word "call", expressing the influence of the Spirit of God, under which David wrote; otherwise the Pharisees would have had a direction how to have answered the question, which much puzzled them:
saying, as in Psa 110:1.