Mark 12:18–27

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

¹⁸Some ^qSadducees, ^rwho say there is no resurrection, ^scame to Him and questioned Him: ¹⁹“Teacher, ^tMoses ^uwrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, ^vhis brother should take the wife ^wand produce offspring for his brother. ^xy20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring. ²¹The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²²So the seven ^zleft no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³In the resurrection, when they rise, ^awhose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?” ^b

²⁴Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures ^cor the power ^dof God? ^e25For when they rise ^ffrom the dead, ^gthey neither marry nor are given in marriage ^hbut are like angels ⁱin heaven. ²⁶Now 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 ^jam the God of Abraham ^kand the God of Isaac ^land the God of Jacob? ^mn27He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”