Mark 12:18-27

Modern English Version

The Question About the Resurrection^(A)

¹⁸ Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him, saying, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves his wife behind, but leaves no children, that man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.^{[a] 20} Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and when he died, he left no children. ²¹ The second took her and died, leaving no children, and the third likewise. ²² The seven had her and left no children. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

²⁴ Jesus answered them, “Do you not err, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? ²⁵ When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ Now concerning the dead rising, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’^[b]? ²⁷ He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You therefore do greatly err.”