Mark 12:20-44 ▼

20 There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

21 And the second took her, and died, and neither left he seed: and the third likewise.

22 And the seven took her, and left no seed: and the woman died last of all.

23 Therefore in the rising up, when they should rise, to which of them shall the woman be? for the seven had her a wife.

24 And Jesus having answered, said to them, For this do ye not go astray, not knowing the writings, nor the power of God?

25 For when they arise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers which in the heavens.

26 And concerning the dead that they are raised: have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the bramble, how God spake to him, I the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.

27 He is not God of the dead, but God of the living; ye therefore go astray greatly.

28 And one of the scribes having come, having heard them seeking out together, knowing that he answered them well, asked him, Which is the first command of all?

29 And Jesus answered him, That the first of all the commands, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength: this the first command.

31 And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these.

32 And the scribe said to him, Well, Teacher, in truth hast thou spoken: for one God is; and there is no other but he:

33 And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the whole burnt offerrings, and the sacrifices.

34 And Jesus having seen him that he answered understandingly, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And none dared to ask him any more.

35 And Jesus having answered, said, teaching in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David.

36 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my right hand, till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

37 Therefore David himself calls him Lord; and whence is he his son? And a great crowd heard him willingly.

38 And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places,

39 And first seats in synagogues, and first place at tables in first meals:

40 They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment.

41 And Jesus having sat over against the royal treasury, saw how the crowds cast money into the treasury: and many rich cast in much.

42 And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing.

43 And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:

44 For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.