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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Mark 12

Mark 12:1

MARK CHAPTER 12 MARK 12:1 In the parable of the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen Christ foretells the reprobation of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles. MARK 12:13 His reply to the insidious question concerning paying tribute to Caesar. MARK 12:18 He confutes the Sadducees who questioned... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:13

Ver. 13-18. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 22:15", and following verses to MATTHEW 22:22. The Sadducees most probably derived their name from one Sadoc, scholar to Antigonus Sochaeus. It is said that the occasion of their heresy was their master's teaching them, that they must not serve God as servants for r... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:19

Ver. 19-27. The true question about the resurrection was: Whether the bodies of the dead shall rise or not? Not whether they shall arise with the same qualities, affections, powers, &c. They are sown natural, but they shall rise spiritual, bodies, without affections and qualities disposing them to a... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:28

Ver. 28-34. SEE THE NOTES ON "MATTHEW 22:35", and following verses to MATTHEW 22:40, where whatsoever Mark here hath is opened.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:35

Ver. 35-37. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 22:41", and following verses to MATTHEW 22:46. Matthew saith that Christ spake this to the Pharisees, who were very far from acknowledging Christ God man, or indeed expecting a Messiah that should be so. Had they owned Christ, and the hypostatical union of the two n... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:38

Ver. 38-40. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:5", and following verses to MATTHEW 23:7, SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:14". The more men and women want of real worth and value, the more they seek themselves a reputation from their habits, either the gravity, or the riches and gaudery, of them; and the more they co... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 12:41

Ver. 41-44. This is the only piece of history in this chapter which we did not before meet with in Matthew. Luke hath this, LUKE 21:1. For the understanding of this history, both as to the letter and profitable instruction arising from it, we must know, that in the temple (where our Saviour now was)... [ Continue Reading ]

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