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Mark 12:18-20
Lexham English Bible
Mark 12:18-20
Lexham English Bible
A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection
18 And Sadducees—who say there is no resurrection—came up to him and began to ask[a] him, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and father[b] descendants for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he[c] died, he did not leave descendants.
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- Mark 12:18 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to ask”)
- Mark 12:19 Literally “raise up”
- Mark 12:20 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“died”) which is understood as temporal
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