Mark 12:39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:38-44

Jesus’ Criticism of Certain Rabbis and The Contrast Made By Him of A Widow’s Generosity (12:38-44). Having been challenged by the different leading parties in Judaism, and having given them a final weighing up, Jesus now feels a responsibility to warn the people against the Scribes, whose influence over the people was so great. The ideas here are expanded on in Matthew 23:0. Mark’s rendering gives us very much a summary. There is a threefold contrast in what follows. Firstly, the Rabbis are... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:38-40

Mark 12:38-Matthew : . 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 they take rich fees for pious services, or press the rights of creditors against widows harshly? Alike their social ambitions and their impoverishing of widows turn their prayers into pretence. These criticisms seem rather sweeping if aimed at a class. But it is difficult to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 12:38-40

See Poole on "Matthew 23:5", and following verses to Matthew 23:7, See Poole on "Matthew 23:14". The more men and women want of real worth and value, the more they seek themselves a reputation from their habits, either the gravity, or the riches and gaudery, of them; and the more they court titles of honour and dignity, and affect external respect. Whereas nobler souls despise these things, being like pictures well drawn, which need no superscription to tell men what or whose they are. Good men... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 12:38-40

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 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. Greater damnation.—A heavier sentence or doom than that awaiting other sinners. Christ always denounces the hypocrite as a villain of double dye.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Mark 12:38-40(PARALLELS: Matthew 23:13-39; Luke 20:45-47.)Character and conduct of scribes denounced.—I. Their loud professions of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 12:1-44

Mark's gospel, chapter 12.Now we remember that Jesus is in the temple. This is the day after He had cleansed it again. It is on Tuesday. It is His final week. Sunday He had made His triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the donkey. Monday He came in and cleansed the temple. Now Tuesday He returns to the temple with His disciples, where immediately He is challenged by the religious leaders concerning the authority by which He has done these things.And he began to speak unto them by parables. [And... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 12:1-44

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 80:0. and Isaiah 5:0. Mark 12:2 . He sent to the husbandmen a servant. Matthew has the plural, servants. The harmony is, that the steward had servants with him. Those innocent variations tend to strengthen the gospel history: the evangelists did not write in concert. Mark 12:6 . Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 12:38-40

Mark 12:38-40Beware of the Scribes which love to go in long clothing.Recklessness of ambitionThere is the Synagogue of Ambition, whose bond of union is the lust of place and of power. Let Diotrephes be its representative, who, “loved to have the preeminence,” and whom St. John censured for this ambitious temper, which tempted him, though nominally a member-perhaps a minister-of the early church, violently to reject the best Christians. What are not men ready to do to gratify an inordinate and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 12:39

39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: Ver. 39. See Trapp on " Mat 23:6 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 12:39

James 2:2, James 2:3 Reciprocal: Matthew 6:2 - in the synagogues Matthew 23:6 - General Luke 11:43 - for Luke 14:7 - they Luke 20:46 - which read more

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