Mark 12:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. ”

• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Thou shalt , &o. Quoted from Leviticus 19:18 . neighbour . the one near. Compare Matthew 5:43 . Luke 10:27 ; Luke 10:29 ; Luke 10:36 , none , &c. not (Greek. ou . App-105.) another...

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• Mark 12:31 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1450 LOVE TO OUR NEIGHBOUR Mark 12:31 . And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these . A QUESTION...

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• Mark 12:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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• Mark 12:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy nei...

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• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the second is like ,.... "Unto it", as in Matthew 22:39 and so it is read here in two ancient copies of Beza's, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions; [name...

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• Mark 12:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Ver. 31. See Trapp on " Mat 22:39 "

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• Mark 12:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the second is like Of a like comprehensive nature; comprising the whole of our duty to man. Thou shalt love thy neighbour “The precept enjoining love to our neighbour is like to the great com...

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• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Mark 12:29 "

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• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Mark 12:30-31 The True Application of Christian Doctrines. I. Jesus came, first, to teach men of God. Without this knowledge man can never understand himself, either as to his nature, his duties,...

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• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - 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 12:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The second great commandment, love to our neighbour I. I shall make a few observations concerning the nature of this duty. This phraseology has been ve...

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• Mark 12:31 - 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 12:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The foremost commandment:

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• Mark 12:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ; 1 John 3:17-19 ; 1 John 4:21 ; 1 John 4:7 ; 1 John 4:8 ; Galatians 5:14 ; James 2:8-13 ; Leviticus 19:13 ; Luke 10:27 ; Luke 10:36 ; Luke 10:37 ; Matthew 19:18 ; M...

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• Mark 12:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The second is like unto it — Of a like comprehensive nature: comprising our whole duty to man. There is no other moral, much less ceremonial commandment, greater than these. Leviticus 19:18 .

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