Mark 12:40
Which deuoure widdowes houses, & vnder a pretence, make long prayers: These shal receaue greater dampnatio.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
In Context
39And the chiefe seates in the congregations, and the vppermost rowmes at feastes,
Cross References
Matthew 6:7But when ye pray, babble not much, as the heathen do. For they thynke [it wyl come to passe,] that they shalbe heard, for theyr much bablinges sake.
Matthew 23:13Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
Matthew 23:33Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell?
Luke 20:47Which deuour widowes howses vnder colour of longe prayers: The same shall receaue greater dampnation.
Matthew Henry on Mark 12:36-41
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 the Son of David? 36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly. 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love… Read the whole commentary →