Mark 12:18-27 ▼

18 [Some] Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) came to Jesus, 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 MARRY THE WIFE AND RAISE UP CHILDREN TO HIS BROTHER.

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

21 |The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

22 and [so] all seven left no children. 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 married her.|

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.|