Mark 12:24 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason that you are [so] mistaken, that you do not know [what] the Scriptures [teach] or [how much] power God has?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Jesus said to them, Is not this where you wander out of the way and go wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

Common English Bible

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you are wrong, because you don’t know either the scriptures or God’s power?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And Jesus responded by saying to them: "But have you not gone astray, by knowing neither the scriptures, nor the power of God?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

Mark 12:24 Cross References

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken [in your reasoning], not knowing [what] the Scriptures [teach] or [how much] power God has.

Mark 10:27

Jesus looked at them and said, “This would be impossible with men, but not with God, for everything is possible with God.”

Mark 12:23

[Now] whose wife will she be in the resurrected state, for all seven [brothers] were married to her?”

Mark 12:25

For when people rise from the dead, men do not get married, and women are not given away in marriage, but [all] are like angels in heaven.

Luke 1:37

For nothing that God says [will happen] is impossible.”

John 20:9

But these disciples still did not understand the Scripture that [predicted] Jesus must rise again from the dead.

John 5:39

You search through the Scriptures [i.e., the Old Testament], because you think that you will [learn how to] have never ending life by [reading] them. And these Scriptures are what testify concerning me.

Acts 17:11

Now these people [in Berea] had more character than those in Thessalonica because they [not only] received the message with an open mind but [also] examined the [Old Testament] Scriptures every day to see if what they had heard was really true.

Romans 15:4

For whatever things were written previously [i.e., in the Old Testament], were intended for us to learn from, so that we could have hope [i.e., in the face of difficult times] through remaining steadfast, and through the encouragement [received] from reading the Scriptures.

Ephesians 1:19

and what God’s tremendous power [working] in us believers is. [This power is] the same as that utilized by God’s mighty strength,

Philippians 3:21

who will change our lowly [physical] bodies and make them like His glorious body. [He will do this] according to the power that enables Him even to bring everything into submission to Himself.