Mark 12:40

and devoure widowes houses and that vnder coloure of longe prayinge. These shall receave greater dampnacion.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39and the chefe seates in the synagoges and to syt in the vppermost roumes at feastes

41And Iesus sat over agaynst the treasury and behelde how the people put money in to the treasury. And many that were ryche cast in moch.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:7And when ye praye bable not moche as the hethe do: for they thincke that they shalbe herde for their moche bablynges sake.

Matthew 23:13Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of heven before men: ye youre selves goo not in nether suffre ye them that come to enter in.

Matthew 23:33Yee serpentes and generacion of vipers how shuld ye scape the dampnacion of hell?

Luke 20:47which devoure widdowes houses and that vnder a coloure of longe prayinge: the same shall receave greater damnacion.

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 →

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