Mark Chapter 12 verse 24 Holy Bible
Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
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Jesus said to them, Is not this the reason for your error, that you have no knowledge of the holy Writings or of the power of God?
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And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?
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And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
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Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
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And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - These Sadducees erred in two ways: (1) They did not know or remember the Scriptures, such as that in Job (Job 21:25), "I know that my Redeemer liveth," etc., or in Isaiah (Isaiah 26:19), "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise;" or in Daniel (Daniel 12:2), "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake," etc. (2) They did not know the power of God, namely, that he can raise the bodies of the dead again to life, even as at first he created them out of nothing; for a greater power is required to make that to be which was not, than to make that again to be which once was. But then the resurrection life will be a new life, spiritual, glorious, eternal, like that of the angels. So in these words our Lord struck at the double root of the error of the Sadducees: (1) ignorance of the Scriptures, which plainly teach the resurrection; and . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Because ye know not the scriptures.--More literally, as in St. Matthew, not knowing the scriptures.