Mark 12:24
Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?
Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Do
- As the five books of Moses were the only scriptures which the Sadducees admitted as Divine, our Lord confutes them by an appeal to these books, and proves that they were ignorant of those very writings which they professed to hold sacred. He not only rectified their opinions, but so explained the doctrine as to overthrow the erroneous decision of the Pharisees, that if two brothers married one woman, she should be restored at the resurrection to the first.
- Isaiah 8:20; Jeremiah 8:7–9; Hosea 6:6; Hosea 8:12; Matthew 22:29; John 5:39; John 20:9; Acts 17:11; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:15–17
- because
- Job 19:25–27; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 26:19; Ezekiel 37:1–14; Daniel 12:2; Hosea 6:2; Hosea 13:14
- neither
- Mark 10:27; Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:17; Luke 1:37; Ephesians 1:19; Philippians 3:21