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Sadducees Question Jesus About The Resurrection of a Wife With Seven Husbands

18 And Sadducees come to Him, who say that there is not a resurrection. And they were questioning Him, saying 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us [in Deut 25:5] that if a brother of someone dies and leaves-behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife, and raise-up-from her a seed[a] for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and dying, did not leave a seed.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:19 That is, offspring, and thus, a posterity.

Marriage at the Resurrection(A)

18 Then the Sadducees,(B) who say there is no resurrection,(C) came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.(D) 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children.

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