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And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>In His teaching He was saying: Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and <i>like</i> respectful greetings in the market places, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>who devour widows houses, and for appearances sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Widows Mite</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>And He sat down opposite the treasury, and <i>began</i> observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/12-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/mark/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/mark/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is the son of David? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/mark/12.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jesus answering said as he was teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/mark/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/mark/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/mark/12.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/mark/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/mark/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, 'How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David?<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/gods_last_arrow.htm">God's Last Arrow</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Having yet therefore one son, his well-beloved, he sent him also last unto them.'--Mark xii. 6. Reference to Isaiah v. There are differences in detail here which need not trouble us. Isaiah's parable is a review of the theocratic history of Israel, and clearly the messengers are the prophets; here Christ speaks of Himself and His own mission to Israel, and goes on to tell of His death as already accomplished. I. The Son who follows and surpasses the servants. (a) Our Lord here places Himself in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/gods_last_arrow.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/dishonest_tenants.htm">Dishonest Tenants</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And He began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. 3. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. 4. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/dishonest_tenants.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/not_far_and_not_in.htm">Not Far and not In</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.'--Mark xii. 34, 'A bruised reed He will not break, and the smoking flax He will not quench.' Here is Christ's recognition of the low beginnings of goodness and faith. This is a special case of a man who appears to have fully discerned the spirituality and inwardness of law, and to have felt that the one bond between God and man was love. He needed only to have followed out the former thought to have been smitten by the conviction of his own sinfulness, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_d/not_far_and_not_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/burgon/inspiration_and_interpretation/sermon_vii_the_marvels_of.htm">The Marvels of Holy Scripture, --Moral and Physical. --Jael's Deed Defended. --Miracles vindicated. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God. ON a certain occasion, the Son of Man was asked what was thought a hard question by those who, in His day, professed "the negative Theology [588] ." There was a moral and there was physical marvel to be solved. Both difficulties were met by a single sentence. The Sadducean judgment had gone astray from the Truth, (planasthe our Saviour said,) from a twofold cause: (1) The men did not understand those very Scriptures <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/burgon/inspiration_and_interpretation/sermon_vii_the_marvels_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John William Burgon—</span><span class="citation2">Inspiration and Interpretation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xiv_obedience_to_god.htm">Obedience to God the Way to Faith in Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"When Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God."--Mark xii. 34. The answer of the scribe, which our blessed Lord here commends, was occasioned by Christ's setting before him the two great commandments of the Law. When He had declared the love of God and of man to comprehend our whole duty, the scribe said, "Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but He: and to love Him with all the heart, and with <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xiv_obedience_to_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_114_the_unity_of.htm">The Unity of the Divine Being</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"There is one God." Mark 12:32. 1. And as there is one God, so there is one religion and one happiness for all men. God never intended there should be any more; and it is not possible there should. Indeed, in another sense, as the Apostle observes, "there are gods many, and lords many." All the heathen nations had their gods; and many, whole shoals of them. And generally, the more polished they were, the more gods they heaped up to themselves. But to us, to all that are favoured with the Christian <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_114_the_unity_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_26_1880/for_the_candid_and_thoughtful.htm">For the Candid and Thoughtful</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It strikes me that this scribe was half-hearted in the work of tempting our Lord, even at the first. I should imagine him to have been a very superior man amongst his fellows, a man of greater light and discernment than the rest, and of greater ability in statement and discussion. Possibly for this cause his brother scribes selected him, and put him forward to ask the testing questions. Now, it will sometimes happen that a man is thrust forward by others to do what he would never have thought of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_26_1880/for_the_candid_and_thoughtful.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 26: 1880</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/the_first_and_great_commandment.htm">The First and Great Commandment</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It is "the first commandment," again, not only for antiquity, but for dignity. This command, which deals with God the Almighty must ever take precedence of every other. Other commandments deal with man and man, but this with man and his Creator. Other commands of a ceremonial kind, when disobeyed, may involve but slight consequences upon the person who may happen to offend, but this disobeyed provokes the wrath of God, and brings his ire at once upon the sinner's head. He that stealeth committeth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/the_first_and_great_commandment.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_66_controversy.htm">Controversy</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The priests and rulers had listened in silence to Christ's pointed rebukes. They could not refute His charges. But they were only the more determined to entrap Him, and with this object they sent to Him spies, "which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of His words, that so they might deliver Him unto the power and authority of the governor." They did not send the old Pharisees whom Jesus had often met, but young men, who were ardent and zealous, and whom, they thought, Christ <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_66_controversy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Desire of Ages</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_67_woes_on_the.htm">Woes on the Pharisees</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It was the last day of Christ's teaching in the temple. Of the vast throngs that were gathered at Jerusalem, the attention of all had been attracted to Him; the people had crowded the temple courts, watching the contest that had been in progress, and they eagerly caught every word that fell from His lips. Never before had such a scene been witnessed. There stood the young Galilean, bearing no earthly honor or royal badge. Surrounding Him were priests in their rich apparel, rulers with robes and badges <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_67_woes_on_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Desire of Ages</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxi_observing_the_offerings_and.htm">Observing the Offerings and Widow's Mites. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(in the Temple. Tuesday, April 4, a.d. 30.) ^B Mark XII. 41-44; ^C Luke XXI. 1-4. ^b 41 And he sat down over against the treasury [It is said that in the court of the women there were cloisters or porticos, and under the shelter of these were placed thirteen chests with trumpet-shaped mouths into which offerings might be dropped. The money cast in was for the benefit of the Temple. An inscription on each chest showed to which one of the thirteen special items of cost or expenditure the contents would <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxi_observing_the_offerings_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. 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