Mark 12:18-27
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
18 Some(A) Sadducees,(B) who say there is no resurrection,(C) came to Him and questioned Him:
19 “Teacher,(D) Moses(E) wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child,(F) his brother should take the wife(G) and produce offspring for his brother.(H)(a)
20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring.
21 The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.
22 So the seven(b) left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too.
23 In the resurrection, when they rise,(c) whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”(d)
24 Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures(I) or the power(J) of God?(K)
25 For when they rise(L) from the dead,(M) they neither marry nor are given in marriage(N) but are like angels(O) in heaven.
26 Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I(P) am the God of Abraham(Q) and the God of Isaac(R) and the God of Jacob?(S)(e)
27 He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”
Footnotes:
b.
Mark 12:22: Other mss add had taken her and
c.
Mark 12:23: Other mss omit when they rise
d.
Mark 12:23: Lit the seven had her as a wife
Cross references:
B.
Mark 12:18:
Acts 23:6
C.
Mark 12:18:
Acts 1:22
F.
Mark 12:19:
Luke 1:7
L.
Mark 12:25:
Luke 18:33
R.
Mark 12:26:
James 2:21