Mark 12:35
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New International Version (©2011)
While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, "Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Later, as Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple, he asked, "Why do the teachers of religious law claim that the Messiah is the son of David?

English Standard Version (©2001)
And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

International Standard Version (©2012)
While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is David's son?

NET Bible (©2006)
While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And Yeshua answered and said as he taught in The Temple, “How are the Scribes saying that The Messiah is the son of David?”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
While Jesus was teaching in the temple courtyard, he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is David's son?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?

American King James Version
And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?

American Standard Version
And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is the son of David?

Darby Bible Translation
And Jesus answering said as he was teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?

English Revised Version
And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?

Weymouth New Testament
But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

World English Bible
Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, 'How say the scribes that the Christ is son of David?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:35-40 When we attend to what the Scriptures declare, as to the person and offices of Christ, we shall be led to confess him as our Lord and God; to obey him as our exalted Redeemer. If the common people hear these things gladly, while the learned and distinguished oppose, the former are happy, and the latter to be pitied. And as sin, disguised with a show of piety, is double iniquity, so its doom will be doubly heavy.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. - Our Lord was now in the temple, and he took the opportunity for instructing the scribes and Pharisees concerning his person and his dignity. Thus, as ever, he returned good for evil. He here taught them that the Messiah was not a mere man, as they supposed, but that he was i both God and man, and that therefore they ought not to wonder or to be offended because he called himself the Son of God. St. Matthew (Matthew 22:42) more fully gives their answer first, namely, that "Christ is the Son of David." They should have said that, as God, he was the Son of God, according to those words, "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee;" but that, as man, he was the Son of David. Their answer was very different from that of Peter: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." But they wanted the Divine knowledge which the disciples had gained.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Jesus answered and said,.... To the Pharisees that were gathered together about him; See Gill on Matthew 22:41.

While he taught in the temple; Whilst he was in the temple, and as he was teaching the people there; among other things in his doctrine, he put this question,

how say the Scribes, that Christ is the son of David? Not that Christ meant to deny or invalidate the truth of this; for the Messiah was certainly to be the son of David, and was; but he wanted to know, inasmuch as they commonly said, and instructed the people to believe, and it was in general believed by them, that he was David's son, how they could reconcile this to his being the Lord of David: or how they could give out, that he was only and merely the Son of David, when he was David's Lord. Matthew relates the matter thus; that Christ first put these questions to them, what they thought of the Messiah, and whose son he was; and that they immediately replied, he was the son of David: wherefore this question seems to be put upon that, with another along with it,

how then doth David in spirit call him Lord? See Gill on Matthew 22:42, Matthew 22:43.

Wesley's Notes on the Bible

12:35 Mt 22:41; Lu 20:41.

Mark 12:35 Parallel Commentaries
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Whose Son is the Christ?
35And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? 36For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool. 37David therefore himself calls him Lord; and from where is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"
Matthew 22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Matthew 26:55 In that hour Jesus said to the crowd, "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me.
Mark 10:1 Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.
Mark 14:49 Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."
Luke 20:41 Then Jesus said to them, "Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David?