Mark 12:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

Mark 12:39 —

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James 2:2-3
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 35-40)

Here, I. Christ shows the people how weak and defective the scribes were in their preaching, and how unable to solve the difficulties that occurred in the scriptures of the Old Testament, which they undertook to expound. Of this he gives an instance, which is not so fully related here as it was in Matthew. Christ was teaching in the temple: many things he said, which were not written; but notice i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

39. And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms--or positions. at feasts--On this love of distinction, see on Lu 14:7; Mt 6:5.