From 86a6369c6ac797360f73ffffc92c7d05d5ddc171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Warren Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:16:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Reworked David's prediction of Messiah --- 42-MRK/12.usfm | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/42-MRK/12.usfm b/42-MRK/12.usfm index 54286c42..59c149dd 100644 --- a/42-MRK/12.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/12.usfm @@ -75,15 +75,11 @@ \v 33 You have also said correctly that we should love God in all that we want and feel, in all that we think, and in all that we do. And you have said correctly that we must love people with whom we come in contact as much as we love ourselves. And you have also correctly said that doing these things pleases God more than offering animals to him or burning other sacrifices." \v 34 Jesus realized that this man had answered wisely. So he said to him, "You are close to the point where God will agree to rule over you." After that, the Jewish leaders were afraid to ask him any more questions like that to try to trick him. - - \s5 \p -\v 35 Later, while Jesus was teaching in the temple area, he said to the people, "These men who teach the Jewish laws, they must be wrong when they say that the Christ is merely a human descendant of King David! -\v 36 The Holy Spirit caused David himself to say about the Christ, 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me at my right hand, in the place where I will highly honor you more than anyone else! Sit here while I completely defeat your enemies!"' -\v 37 Therefore, because David himself calls the Christ 'my Lord,' the Christ cannot be just a man who descended from King David! He must be much greater than David!" Many people listened to him gladly as he taught those things. - - +\v 35 Later, while Jesus was teaching in the temple area, he said to the people, "How is it that those who teach the law often say—and they say correctly—that the Messiah is the son of David? +\v 36 The Holy Spirit caused David to say about the Messiah, 'God said to my Lord, "Sit here beside me at my right hand, in the place where I will highly honor you above everyone else! Sit here while I completely defeat your enemies!"' +\v 37 In this Psalm of David he refers to the Messiah as 'Lord.' But how—as the teachers of the law rightly say—can the Messiah also be the son of David?" Many people listened to him gladly as he taught these things. \s5 \p