Expository Thoughts
visitations are either for wrath, or mercy: for wrath, Exodus 32:34; for mercy, Jeremiah 29:10. It is plain that our Saviour uses the term here in its latter, not its former sense; and that by God's visitation is meant his visiting them by the prophets, John the Baptist, and himself."
45. Then he entered the temple area. Jerome considers our Lord's cleansing of the temple to be his greatest miracle.
46. "It is written . . ." All reformation of abuses in churches should be built on God's Word.
47. Every day he was teaching at the temple. The link between this verse and the previous verse should not be overlooked. Our Lord had just called the temple "'the house of prayer.'" Yet he proceeds to show, by his own example, that it is to be the house of teaching as well as praying.
Luke – Chap. 20
Luke 20:1-8
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS QUESTIONED
Let us notice, firstly, in this passage, the demand which the chief Priests and scribes made upon our Lord. "Tell us," they said, "by what authority you do these things? and who gave you this authority?"