Mark 12:18-27 ▼

18 And the Sadducees come to Him, who say there is not a resurrection, and they questioned Him, saying,

19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if anyone’s brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

20 There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

21 and the second took her, and died, not having left seed, and the third in like manner,

22 and the seven took her, and left no seed, last of all the woman also died;

23 in the resurrection, then, whenever they may rise, of which of them will she be wife—for the seven had her as wife?”

24 And Jesus answering said to them, “Do you not go astray because of this, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

25 For when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

26 And concerning the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the Scroll of Moses (at the bush), how God spoke to him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

27 He is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; you then go greatly astray.”