Mark 12:24-44 ▼

24 And Jesus answered and said to them: Do you not err for this reason, because you know not 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 as the angels in heaven.

26 But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book 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 the dead, but of the living. Therefore, you do greatly err.

28 And one of the scribes came, and heard them reasoning together; and perceiving that he had answered them well, he asked him: Which is the first commandment of all?

29 And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

30 And you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. This is the first commandment.

31 And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these.

32 And the scribe said to him: Teacher, in truth you have well said, that there is one God, and there is no other beside him;

33 and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

34 And Jesus perceiving that he answered with understanding, said to him: You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one, after that, ventured to ask him a question.

35 And Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, answered and said: How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

36 For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

37 David himself, then, calls him Lord; and how is he his son? And the great multitude heard him with pleasure.

38 And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets,

39 and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers;

40 who eat up the houses of widows, and, as a pretext, make long prayers: these shall receive more abundant condemnation.

41 And Jesus, sitting opposite the treasury, observed how the multitude threw money into the treasury. And many rich persons threw in much.

42 And there came one poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

43 And he called his disciples to him, and said to them: Verily I say to you, this poor widow has thrown in more than all that have thrown into the treasury.

44 For all have thrown in out of their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, has thrown in all that she had, her whole living.