Mark 12:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. ”

• Mark 12:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Which devour widows’ houses - Which devour the families of widows, or the means of supporting their families. This they did under pretence of counseling them in the knowledge of the law and in th...

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• Mark 12:40 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A Warning Against the Scribes. These verses read like a summary of or a fragment from the longer discourse in Q. The reference to widows-' houses is found only in Mk. Its meaning is obscure. Did th...

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• Mark 12:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  devour . eat up. Being occupied in making wills and conveyances of property, they abused their office. greater damnation . heavier judgment.

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• Mark 12:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

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• Mark 12:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receiv...

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• Mark 12:40 - 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 12:40 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 12:35-40 ( Mark 12:35-40 ) DAVID'S LORD "And Jesus answered and said, as He taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the Son of David? David himself said in the Holy S...

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• Mark 12:40 - 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 12:40 - 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 12:40 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (35) And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? (36) For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou...

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• Mark 12:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Which devour widows' houses ,.... Matthew 23:14 .

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• Mark 12:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. Ver. 40. See Trapp on " Mat 23:14 "

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• Mark 12:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Beware of the scribes See that ye do not imitate their hypocrisy, or imbibe their principles, and be on your guard against their insidious counsels and designs. There was an absolute necessity for...

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• Mark 12:40 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ the Son and Lord of David.       35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is...

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• Mark 12:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Mark 12:39 "

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• Mark 12:40 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 12:39 . Uppermost rooms at feasts .— Chief places in the suppers —the most important meal of the day, and the most fashionable entertainment. Mark 12:40 . G...

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• Mark 12:40 - 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 12:40 - 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 12:40 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Beware of the Scribes which love to go in long clothing. Recklessness of ambition There is the Synagogue of Ambition, whose bond of union is the lust of place and of power. Let Diotrephes be it...

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• Mark 12:40 - 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 12:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A last warning of Jesus:

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• Mark 12:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 3:6 ; Ezekiel 22:25 ; Luke 12:47 ; Luke 12:48 ; Luke 20:47 ; Micah 2:2 ; Micah 3:1-4 ; Matthew 11:22-24 ; Matthew 23:14 ; Matthew 23:33 ; Matthew 6:7

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