Mark 12:29

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:29-31

‘Jesus answered, “The first is, hear Oh Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” ’ Jesus answered willingly by turning men’s eyes back on God, and to the Scriptures. While He saw the whole Law of God as the word of God (Mark 7:13) He was not hidebound... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 12:28-34

Mark 12:28-Nahum : . 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 was no real doubt as to the greater commandment. The Shema ( Deuteronomy 6:4 f.) was repeated daily by the Jews. It was the foundation-text of their monotheism, which was “ not a speculative theory but a practical conviction” (pp. 618f.). Jesus adds to it Leviticus 19:18. Love... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Mark 12:28-34

See the notes on "Matthew 22:35", and following verses to Matthew 22:40, where whatsoever Mark here hath is opened. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 12:28-34

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 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 with sacrificial rites—or what?Mark 12:30. Note the prep. ἐξ, before “heart,” “soul,” “mind,” “strength.” The whole of man’s complex being is to go out in love to God. “The measure of our love to God is to love Him without measure.”Mark 12:32. Finely (answered)! Teacher, Thou hast spoken from (the standpoint... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 12:29-30

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 words heart, soul, mind, and strength or might, in the Hebrew of Deuteronomy, or the Greek of Mark. Briefly, Christ is saying that the whole man must be enlisted in our love of God. (1) God claims from us a warm personal affection. Nothing will make up to God for the want of affection. The highest... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Mark 12:28-30

DISCOURSE: 1449LOVE TO GOD, THE GREAT COMMANDMENTMark 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, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; this is the first... 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 12:29

29 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 Aristotle with his Ens Entium miserere mei (if that were his), acknowledged,Exodus 34:14; Exodus 34:14 . ( εις θεος εστι μονος , Pythag. Buxtorf. Tib.) "Thou shalt worship none other God." Where the word אתר rendered other hath ר greater than ordinary, to show the greatness of the sin of serving... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 12:29

Hear: Mark 12:32, Mark 12:33, Deuteronomy 6:4, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 30:6, Proverbs 23:26, Matthew 10:37, Luke 10:27, 1 Timothy 1:5 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:35 - none else 1 Kings 3:3 - loved Nehemiah 9:6 - even thou Psalms 86:10 - God Psalms 119:96 - but thy Matthew 7:12 - for Matthew 22:37 - General 1 Corinthians 8:4 - there is 1 Corinthians 13:13 - the greatest 1 Timothy 2:5 - one God James 2:19 - General 1 John 2:7 - but 1 John 4:21 - General read more

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