Mark 12:18–37

¹⁸And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him saying, ¹⁹Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one’s brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. ²⁰There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed; ²¹and the second took her and died, and neither did he leave seed; and the third likewise. ²²And the seven took her and did not leave seed. Last of all the woman also died. ²³In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife? ²⁴And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God? ²⁵For when they rise from among the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels who are in the heavens. ²⁶But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the section of the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? ²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Ye therefore greatly err.

²⁸And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is the first commandment of all? ²⁹And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord; ³⁰and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these. ³²And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him; ³³and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as one’s self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices. ³⁴And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared question him any more.

³⁵And Jesus answering said as he was teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David? ³⁶for David himself said speaking in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet. ³⁷David himself therefore calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.