Mark 12:18–27

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

^18aThen some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) ^*came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying,

¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^aif a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should ¹marry the wife and raise up a seed for his brother.

²⁰“There were seven brothers; and the first ¹married a wife, and died leaving no ²seed.

²¹“And the second one ¹married her, and died leaving behind no seed; and the third likewise;

²²and so ¹all seven left no seed. Last of all the woman died also.

²³“In the resurrection, ¹when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For ²all seven ³had married her.”

²⁴Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not ¹understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?

²⁵“For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

²⁶“But ¹regarding the fact that the dead are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, ^ain the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘^bI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

²⁷“^aHe is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”