Mark 12:18-27

Worldwide English (New Testament)

¹⁸ Some of the Sadducees came to Jesus. They say that people do not rise from death. They asked Jesus a question.

¹⁹ `Teacher,' they said, `Moses gave us this law: if a man dies and leaves a wife but no children, then his brother must marry the wife and raise a family for his brother.

²⁰ There were seven brothers. The first one married. He died and left no child.

²¹ e second brother married the wife. He also died and left no child. It was the same with the third one.

²² All seven brothers married her. They all had no children. Last of all the woman died also.

²³ Now then when people rise from death, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her.'

²⁴ Jesus said to them, `You are wrong! You do not know what the holy writings say. And you do not know what power God has.

²⁵ When people rise from death, men and women do not marry. But they are like angels in heaven.

²⁶ People do rise from death! Have you never read what Moses wrote? It is in the place where we read about the small tree which burned. Moses tells how God said to him, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

²⁷ He is not the God of dead people, but of living people. The way you look at things is wrong altogether.'