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OET-RV by cross-referenced section MARK 12:38

MARK 12:38–12:40 ©

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Yeshua warns about smartly-dressed teachers

Mark 12:38–40

Mat 23:1–36

Luke 20:45–47

12:38 Yeshua warns about smartly-dressed teachers

(Mat. 23:1-36, Luke 20:45-47)

38As Yeshua continued teaching, he said, “Watch out for these religious teachers who like to wear fancy robes and be greeted in the square, 39and have the best seats at meetings and the best places at dinners. 40These people trick widows out of their properties, but offer long prayers to cover it up. They will be getting a stricter judgement than others.

23:1 Yeshua’s warnings about show and status

(Mark 12:38-39, Luke 11:43)

23Then Yeshua spoke to the crowds and to his followers, 2The religious teachers and the Pharisees party claim the authority of Mosheh. 3Because of that, do everything they tell you to do and obey all the commandments they tell you to obey. However, don’t follow what they do, because they’re only good at telling and not at doing. 4They package up heavy and unbearable loads and place them across the shoulders of the people, while they themselves won’t even more their little fingers. 5[ref]Everything that they do do, is only done to be a public display in front of the people, so they have big prayer boxes and fancy robes. 6They love the best place at dinners and the best seats in the meeting halls 7and being greeted in the marketplaces and to be addressed as ‘My great one’. 8But don’t let anyone call you ‘My great one’, because you only have one leader and you are all brothers and sisters, 9and don’t let anyone call you ‘Father’ on earth, because you all only have one heavenly father. 10Don’t let anyone call you their mentor, because you all have only one teacher and that’s the messiah. 11[ref]The most important person will be everyone’s servant 12[ref]and anyone who praises themself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles themself will be praised.

23:12 Yeshua reveals the hypocrisy of those who’re religious

(Mark 12:40, Luke 11:39-42)

13You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’re actually keeping people away from the kingdom of the heavens—you don’t enter yourselves and nor do you allow others to enter.

14 15You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’d travel all the way around the world to make one convert, and then you’d make him twice the son of hell that you are yourselves.

16You blind guides will have a bad end. You say that if anyone makes an oath on the temple it’s worthless, but if they make an oath on the gold in the temple then they have to honour it. 17You are both stupid and blind, because which is greater: the gold, or the temple which makes the gold valuable? 18And you say that anyone who makes an oath on the altar it’s worthless, but anyone who makes an oath on the gift on the altar has to honour it. 19You are both stupid and blind, because which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift valuable? 20Anyone who makes an oath on the altar, is bound by both the altar and the things on it. 21Anyone who makes an oath on the temple, is bound by both the temple and God who lives in it. 22[ref]And anyone who makes an oath on heaven, is bound by both God’s throne and the one who’s sitting on it.

23[ref]You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you give a tenth of your herbs but you ignore the weightier parts of the commandments like justice and mercy and faith. Those are the things that should have been observed and not left out. 24You blind guides. You try to strain out a gnat and end up swallowing a camel.

25You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you scrub the outside of your cups and bowls but the inside is still full of greed and selfishness. 26You blind Pharisees. First you should clean the inside of your cup and dish so that the outside would also become clean.

27[ref]You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you are like whitewashed tombs. On the outside they might look nice, but the inside is full of the bones of the dead and all kinds of impurities, 28so even though the people might think you’re godly on the outside, actually your insides are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

23:28 Punishment for mistreating prophets

(Luke 11:47-51)

29You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you rebuild the prophets’ tombs and adorn the tombs of godly people, 30and you tell yourselves, ‘If we’d lived back in those days, we wouldn’t have had any part in killing the prophets.’ 31By saying that, you’re admitting to yourselves that you’re the descendants of the ones who killed the prophets 32actually you’re just the same as your ancestors. 33[ref]Bunch of snakes, brood of vipers, how do you think that you’ll escape the judgement of hell? 34Because of that, listen, I’m now sending out more prophets and wise preachers and teachers to you all. You’ll kill off some of them and have others executed on stakes. You’ll flog some of them in your meeting halls, and you’ll persecute others from city to city, 35[ref]so that the judgement for all the deaths of godly people around the world will fall on you all. This includes the blood of the innocent Abel all the way through the centuries to the blood of Zechariah (son of Berekiah) who you all murdered between the temple and the altar. 36Yes, I can assure you that all these things will happen to this generation.


20:45 Yeshua warns about the religious teachers

(Mark 12:38-40, Mat. 23:1-36)

45While all the people were still listening, Yeshua told his followers, 46Watch out for the religious teachers who enjoy walking around in their robes and love the greetings they get in the marketplaces and the best seats in the meeting halls and the best places at the dinners, 47but they take advantage of widows’ homes and they make their prayers long to impress others. These people will receive a harsher judgement.

Collected OET-RV cross-references

Mat 6:1:

6:1 Giving to the poor

6[ref]Take care not to only be obeying God in front of others so they’ll think well of you, because if you do, you’ll all certainly get no reward from your father in the heavens.


6:1: Mat 23:5.

Deu 6:8:

8

Num 15:38:

38

Mat 20:26-27:

26[ref]But among all of you, it shouldn’t be like that. Instead anyone who wants to become great should be your servant, 27and anyone who wants to be first, should be your slave,


20:26-27: Mat 23:11; Mrk 9:35; Luk 22:26.

Mrk 9:35:

35[ref]So Yeshua sat down and called the twelve of them and explained, “Anyone who wants to be at the top, has to be at the bottom and help all the others.


9:35: Mat 20:26-27; 23:11; Mrk 10:43-44; Luk 22:26.

10:43-44:

43[ref]But it doesn’t work like that with you—anyone of you who wanted to be honoured must serve the others, 44and anyone who wants to become the most respected has to work like a slave does.


10:43-44: Mat 23:11; Mrk 9:35; Luk 22:26.

Luk 22:26:

26[ref]But all of you shouldn’t be like that, but rather the greatest one of you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads you all should become like the servant.


22:26: Mrk 9:35; Mat 23:11.

Luk 14:11:

11[ref]because the person who thinks a lot of themself will be humbled, and the person who humbles themself will be honoured.


14:11: Mat 23:12; Luk 18:14.

18:14:

14[ref]I’m telling you all that this man went home after being declared guiltless, not the other one, because all those who praise themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be praised.


18:14: Mat 23:12; Luk 14:11.

Isa 66:1:

66:1 The judging and the hope

66[ref]


66:1: a Mat 5:34; 23:22; b Mat 5:35.

Mat 5:34:

34[ref]But I’m telling you not to make oaths in the first place—don’t swear by heaven because it’s God’s throne,


5:34: a Jam 5:12; b Isa 66:1; Mat 23:22.

Lev 27:30:

30[ref]


27:30-33: Num 18:21; Deu 14:22-29.

Acts 23:3:

3God will strike you,” said Paul, “you grand show-off. You’ve been brought here to judge me as someone who knows the law and yet you violate the law by commanding that I be hit in the face.”

Mat 3:7:

7[ref]But when Yohan saw many from the party of the Pharisees and from the Sadducee sect coming for immersion, he told them, “You brood of snakes, who warned you all to flee from God’s severe anger that’s coming?


3:7: Mat 12:34; 23:33.

12:34:

34[ref]You brood of snakes! You’re evil inside so why do you think you can say anything that’s good because your mouths speak out of what’s plentiful in your hearts.


12:34: a Mat 3:7; 23:33; Luk 3:7; b Mat 15:18; Luk 6:45.

Luk 3:7:

7[ref]Because of that, he was telling the crowds that went out there to be immersed by him, “Bunch of snakes! Who warned you all to flee from the severe anger that’s coming?


3:7: Mat 12:34; 23:33.

Gen 4:8:

8One day, Kayin spoke to his brother Abel when they were out in the field, and then Kayin attacked him and killed him.[ref]


4:8: Mat 23:35; Luk 11:51; 1Yhn 3:12.

2Ch 24:20-21:

20[ref] 21


24:20-21: Mat 23:35; Luk 11:51.