Sadducees Challenge Resurrection; Jesus Teaches Eternal Life
Mark 12:18-27
18And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they questioned him, saying,19Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if anyone's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother must take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.20There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and, dying, left no offspring.21And the second took her and died, leaving behind no offspring, and the third likewise.22And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.23In the resurrection, when they arise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.24Jesus said to them, "You are mistaken for this reason: you do not know the writings nor the power of God."25For when they arise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.26And concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the thorn bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?"27He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly mistaken.