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Mark 12:18-27

18Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

21The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

22None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

23In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

24Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?

25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

26Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

27He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

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