Mark 12:18-27 ▼

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

19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that IF A MAN’S BROTHER DIES, and leaves behind a wife, AND LEAVES NO CHILD, HIS BROTHER SHOULD TAKE THE WIFE, AND RAISE UP OFFSPRING TO HIS BROTHER.

20 “There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.

21 “And the second one took her, and died, leaving behind no offspring; and the third likewise;

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

23 “In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.”

24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures, or 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 regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning 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 the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”