Mark 12:39

and sit in synagogues in the first chairs [or and sit in the first chairs in synagogues], and in the first sitting places in suppers;

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

In Context

38And he said to them in his teaching, Be ye ware of (the) scribes, that will wander [or that will go] (about) in stoles, and be saluted in [the] chapping (or and be respectfully greeted at the market),

40which devour the houses of widows under [the] colour of long prayer; they shall take the longer doom, [either (the longer) damnation], (or they shall receive the greater condemnation).

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Cross References

James 2:2For if a man that hath a golden ring, and in a fair clothing, (or For if a man who hath a gold ring, and beautiful clothes), cometh in your company, and a poor man entereth in a foul clothing,

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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