And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'
But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?
Mark — The Gospel of the servant in motion. The narrative hinges at Peter's confession (8:27). Before: the Servant revealed. After: the Servant suffers.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Luke 10:25One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
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And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
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John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
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And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets,…
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…
But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
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Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
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But Christ, Self-Existent Wisdom, answers them in such a way that He escapes their snares. He asks them: what did Moses command them?
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on Mark, 1107patristic
And he answered and said unto them,.... Very prudently and wisely, what did Moses command you? according to Matthew, he put another question to them; see Mat 19:4; no doubt but both were put, and this after they had urged the authority and law of Moses: and therefore be very pertinently asks them, what Moses had said about divorces, what law he had left; and puts them upon producing and repeating it, that the sense of it might be examined, and it be considered, upon what account it was given.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
The verses this one reaches4
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
