Mark 12:35 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?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
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?

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

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?

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

Cross References

Matthew 9:27
And when Jesus departed there, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us.

Matthew 22:41
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

Matthew 26:55
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are you come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold on me.

Mark 10:1
And he arose from there, and comes into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort to him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

Mark 14:49
I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

Luke 20:41
And he said to them, How say they that Christ is David's son?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

35. And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple—and "while the Pharisees were gathered together" (Mt 22:41).

How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?—How come they to give it out that Messiah is to be the son of David? In Matthew (Mt 22:42), Jesus asks them, "What think ye of Christ?" or of the promised and expected Messiah? "Whose son is He [to be]? They say unto Him, The son of David." The sense is the same. "He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call Him Lord?" (Mt 22:42, 43).