Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Mark 12:37

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37. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? —There is but one solution of this difficulty. Messiah is at once inferior to David as his son according to the flesh, and superior to him as the Lord of a kingdom of which David is himself a subject, not the sovereign. The human and divine natures of Christ, and the spirituality of His kingdom—of which the highest earthly sovereigns are honored if they be counted worthy to be its subjects—furnish the only key to this puzzle. And the common people —the immense crowd. heard him gladly —"And no man was able to answer Him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions" ( :- ). The Scribes Denounced ( :- ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-38" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-mrk-12-007

절 (explains)

bible-text/mrk-12-37

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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