Mark 12:19-27

English Standard Version

¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^(A)if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man^[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. ²¹ And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because ^(B)you know neither the Scriptures nor ^(C)the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither ^(D)marry nor ^(E)are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ And as for the dead being raised, ^(F)have you not read in ^(G)the book of Moses, in ^(H)the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ^(I)‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ²⁷ He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”