Mark 12:18-34

18And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him saying,

19Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

20There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed;

21and the second took her and died, and neither did he leave seed; and the third likewise.

22And the seven [took her and] did not leave seed. Last of all the woman also died.

23In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?

24And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of 1God?

25For when they rise from among [the] dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels [who are] in the heavens.

26But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the section of] the bush, how 2God spoke to him, saying, I [am] the 3God of Abraham, and the 4God of Isaac, and the 5God of Jacob?

27He is not the 6God of [the] dead, but of [the] living. Ye therefore greatly err.

28And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?

29And Jesus answered him, [The] first commandment of all [is], Hear, Israel: the Lord our 7God is one Lord;

30and thou shalt love the Lord thy 8God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is [the] first commandment.

31And a second like it [is] this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.

32And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to [the] truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;

33and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

34And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of 9God. And no one dared question him any more.