Mar 12:14-27 | Barnes

Mark 12:14-27

Verse 15.

(1) "penny" or "Valuing of our money, seven pence halfpenny, as Mt 22:19 Verse 17.

(z) "to Caesar" Mt 17:25-27, Rom 13:7, 1Pet 2:17 (a) "to God" Eccl 5:4,5, Mal 1:6 Verses 18-27. See this passage fully explained in Mt 22:23-33.

Verse 18.

(b) "Then come unto him" Mt 22:23, Lk 20:27 (c) "say there is" Acts 23:8 Verse 19.

(d) "wrote unto us" De 25:5 (e) "his brother should" Ruth 1:11,13 Verse 25. Are as the angels. That is, as the angels in respect to connexions and relations. What that may be we know not; but this passage teaches that the peculiar relation of marriage will not exist. It does not affirm, however, that there will be no recollection of former marriages, or no recognition of each other as having existed in this tender relation.

(f) "but are" 1Cor 15:42-53 Verse 26. How in the bush. At the burning bush. See Ex 3:6. In that part of the book of Exodus which contains the account of the burning bush. When there were no chapters and verses, it was the easiest way of quoting a book of the Old Testament by the subject, and in this way it was often done by the Jews. Mk 12:28-34. See Mt 22:34-40.

(g) "saying, I am" Ex 3:6 Verse 27.

(h) "ye do therefore" Mk 12:24