Mark 12:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jesus answered him,The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: ”

• Mark 12:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the notes at Matthew 22:34-40 . Mark 12:28 Perceiving that he answered them well - That is, with wisdom, and with a proper understanding of the law. In this case the opinion of the Sav...

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• Mark 12:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Greatest Commandment. This further question does not seem to be put in a spirit of hostility. The scribe may have been a Pharisee who admired the answer Jesus had given to the Sadducees. There...

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• Mark 12:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Hear,. Israel, &c. Quoted from Deuteronomy 6:4 ; Deuteronomy 6:5 . The LORD... LORD . Jehovah... Jehovah. App-98. one . See note on Deuteronomy 6:4 .

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• Mark 12:29 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1449 LOVE TO GOD, THE GREAT COMMANDMENT Mark 12:28-30 . And one of the Scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him...

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• Mark 12:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is , Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

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• Mark 12:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Is one Lord:— See the note, on Deuteronomy 6:4 on Matthew 22:37-38 and the Inferences at the end of that chapter.

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• Mark 12:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is. The readings here var...

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• Mark 12:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Various Incidents and Discourses in the Temple 1-12. The wicked husbandmen ( Matthew 21:33 ; Luke 20:9 ). See on Mt.

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• Mark 12:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 12:28-34 ( Mark 12:28-34 ) THE DISCERNING SCRIBE "And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, What commandment...

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• Mark 12:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the First Commandment Mark 12:28-44 To the young ruler our Lord named one command as great-the love of one's neighbor. Now, in answer to this scribe, he turned with unerring choice, first to D...

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• Mark 12:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this parable of the vineyard the Lord very graphically sketched for those people their own national history, and condemned them thereby. "They perceived that He spake the parable against them." Th...

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• Mark 12:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (28) And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? (29) And Jesus answered hi...

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• Mark 12:29 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ‘THE DOUBLE COMMANDMENT Which is the first commandment of all?… Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.… Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’ Mark 12:28-31 We have in these words a master i...

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• Mark 12:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is ,.... Christ replied at once, without taking any time to consider of it, that the chief and principal of all the commands of the law, and wha...

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• Mark 12:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is , Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: Ver. 29. Is one Lord ] This the wiser heathens, as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and A...

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• Mark 12:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  One of the scribes came So Luke also, Luke 20:19 ; but Matthew, εις εξ αυτων νομικος, one of them being a lawyer. In this diversity of words, however, there is no difference in sense. For the sc...

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• Mark 12:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Hopeful Scribe.       28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered t...

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• Mark 12:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Mark 12:28 "

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• Mark 12:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 12:28 . The scribe’s question was— Of what nature is the first commandment of all? Has it to do, that is, with Sabbath observance, or with circumcision, or wit...

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• Mark 12:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Mark 12:29-30 The Ideal of Christian Consecration. Notice: I. The character of the love of God. It is not necessary that we should accurately determine the philosophical signification of the wor...

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• Mark 12:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Mark 12:12 . And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way. Christ's enemies could no...

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• Mark 12:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mark 12:1 . A certain man planted a vineyard. See on Matthew 20:1 . The idea conveys an enlarged view of its magnitude, conformably to what is said in Psalms 80 . and Isaiah 5 . Mark 12:2 ....

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• Mark 12:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Mark 12:1 And he began to speak unto them in parables . This particular parable which follows was specially directed against the scribes and Pharisees; but it was uttered in th...

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• Mark 12:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The foremost commandment:

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• Mark 12:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Timothy 1:5 ; Deuteronomy 10:12 ; Deuteronomy 30:6 ; Deuteronomy 6:4 ; Luke 10:27 ; Mark 12:32 ; Mark 12:33 ; Matthew 10:37 ; Proverbs 23:26

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• Mark 12:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The Lord our God is one Lord — This is the foundation of the first commandment, yea, of all the commandments. The Lord our God, the Lord, the God of all men, is one God, essentially, though three p...

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