Mark 12:35

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“While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?”

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“While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, `How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 12:35 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Matthew 9:27As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
  2. Matthew 22:41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them:
  3. Matthew 26:55At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
  4. Mark 11:27After their return to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking in the temple courts, and the chief priests, scribes, and elders came up to Him.
  5. Luke 19:47Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
  6. Luke 20:1One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and scribes, together with the elders, came up to Him.
  7. Luke 20:41Then Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David?
  8. Luke 21:37Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.
  9. John 7:42Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
  10. John 18:20“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.

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