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Mark 12:24

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

KJV

ἔφη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· οὐ διὰ τοῦτο πλανᾶσθε μὴ εἰδότες τὰς γραφὰς μηδὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ;

Greek NT

Et respondens Jesus, ait illis : Nonne ideo erratis, non scientes Scripturas, neque virtutem Dei ?

Vulgate

Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

ASV

And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γραφή
graphe
noun · 50×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
δύναμις
dunamis
noun · 119×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πλανάω
planao
verb · 39×
φημί
phemi
verb · 68×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς | RP: Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
  • αὐτοῖς ὁ ἸησοῦςSBLGNT
  • Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§993The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?"540 Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who "is not God of the dead, but of the living."541
Marriage in the Integral Vision of Man The Gospels according to Matthew and Mark report the answer Christ gave to the Pharisees when they questioned him about the indissolubility of marriage. They referred to the law of Moses, which in certain cases admitted the practice of the so-called certificate of divorce. Reminding them of the first chapters of Genesis, Christ answered: …

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:43 — It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
  • 2Tim 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 2Tim 3:16 — All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
  • Acts 17:11 — These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
  • Dan 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Eph 1:19 — And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
  • Ezek 37:1 — The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
  • Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Hos 6:2 — After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
  • Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Isa 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Jas 1:16 — Do not err, my beloved brethren.
  • Jer 8:7 — Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
  • Jer 32:17 — Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
  • Job 19:25 — For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
  • John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • Luke 1:37 — For with God nothing shall be impossible.
  • Luke 20:35 — But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
  • Mark 10:27 — And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
  • Mark 12:27 — He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
  • Matt 22:29 — Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
  • Matt 22:30 — For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
  • Phil 3:21 — Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
  • Rom 15:4 — For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.