Mark 12:24

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“Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?”

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“Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 12:24 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
  2. Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
  3. Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  4. Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  5. Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  6. Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
  7. Jeremiah 32:17“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
  8. Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
  9. Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  10. Hosea 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
  11. Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  12. Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
  13. Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
  14. Matthew 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
  15. Mark 10:27Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
  16. Luke 1:37For no word from God will ever fail.”
  17. John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
  18. John 20:9For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
  19. Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
  20. Romans 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
  21. Ephesians 1:19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
  22. Philippians 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
  23. 2 Timothy 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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