Mark 12:18-27

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

¹⁸ Some^(A) Sadducees,^(B) who say there is no resurrection,^(C) came to Him and questioned Him: ¹⁹ “Teacher,^(D) Moses^(E) wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child,^(F) his brother should take the wife^(G) and produce offspring for his brother.^{(H)[a] 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^[b] left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise,^[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”^[d]

²⁴ Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures^(I) or the power^(J) of God?^{(K) 25} For when they rise^(L) from the dead,^(M) they neither marry nor are given in marriage^(N) but are like angels^(O) 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^(P) am the God of Abraham^(Q) and the God of Isaac^(R) and the God of Jacob?^{(S)[e] 27} He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”