Mark 12:40
They cheat widows out of what they own, and cover up the kind of people they really are with long-winded prayers. They will receive severe condemnation in the judgment.”
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39They love to have the most important seats in the synagogues, and the best places at banquets.
Cross References
Micah 2:2They seize any fields they want. They take any houses they want. They cheat people of their houses, and steal their inheritance.
Matthew 6:7When you pray, don't babble on meaninglessly like the foreigners do, who think they will be heard because of all the words they repeat.
Matthew 23:13But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.
Matthew 23:33You snakes, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Luke 20:47They cheat widows out of what they own, and cover up the kind of people they really are with long-winded prayers. They will receive severe condemnation in the judgment.”
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 →