Mark 12:13-27

Holman Christian Standard Bible

God and Caesar

¹³ Then^(A) they sent some of the Pharisees^(B) and the Herodians^(C) to Him to trap Him by what He said.^{[a](D) 14} When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality^[b](E) but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes^(F) to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy,^(G) He said to them, “Why are you testing^(H) Me? Bring Me a denarius^(I) to look at.” ¹⁶ So they brought one. “Whose image^(J) and inscription^(K) is this?” He asked them.

“Caesar’s,” they said.

¹⁷ Then Jesus told them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”^(L) And they were amazed^(M) at Him.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

¹⁸ Some^(N) Sadducees,^(O) who say there is no resurrection,^(P) came to Him and questioned Him: ¹⁹ “Teacher,^(Q) Moses^(R) wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child,^(S) his brother should take the wife^(T) and produce offspring for his brother.^{(U)[c] 20} There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring. ²¹ The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² So the seven^[d] left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise,^[e] whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”^[f]

²⁴ Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures^(V) or the power^(W) of God?^{(X) 25} For when they rise^(Y) from the dead,^(Z) they neither marry nor are given in marriage^(AA) but are like angels^(AB) in heaven. ²⁶ Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I^(AC) am the God of Abraham^(AD) and the God of Isaac^(AE) and the God of Jacob?^{(AF)[g] 27} He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”