The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

Mark 12

18 And k Sadducees came to him, l who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 19 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that m if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man 1 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 n you know neither the Scriptures nor o the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither p marry nor p are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, q have you not read in r the book of Moses, in s the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, t '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."

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 3:7
    But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Saddu...
    Matthew 16:1
    And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to te...
    Matthew 22:34
    But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenc...
    Acts 4:1
    And as they were speaking to the people, the pr...
    Acts 5:17
    But the high priest rose up, and all who were w...
    Acts 23:6
    Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadd...
  2. Cross References
    Acts 23:8
    For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
    Acts 4:2
    Greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 25:5
    If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
  4. Cross References
    John 20:9
    For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
  5. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 6:14
    And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
  6. Cross References
    Matthew 24:38
    For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark.
    Luke 17:27
    They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 24:38
    For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark.
    Luke 17:27
    They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
  8. Cross References
    Matthew 21:16
    And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?
  9. Cross References
    Luke 3:4
    As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
    Luke 20:42
    For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand.
    Acts 1:20
    "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it'; and "'Let another take his office.'
    Acts 7:42
    But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 3:1 - 4
    Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
    Exodus 3:17
    And I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."
  11. Cross References
    Acts 7:32
    I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
    Exodus 3:6
    And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 3:6
    And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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