Mark 12:18-27

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A Question about the Resurrection^(A)

¹⁸ Then some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus^[a] and asked him, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.^{[b] 20} There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children. ²¹ Then the second married her and died without having children, and so did the third. ²² None of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died, too. ²³ In the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?”^[c]

²⁴ Jesus answered them, “Aren’t you mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power? ²⁵ When people^[d] rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ As for the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?^{[e] 27} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”