Mark 12:18-34

18Then Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came and began questioning Yeshua, saying,

19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, then his brother should take the widow and father children for his brother.’

20There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and, when he died, left no offspring.

21And the second took her and died, leaving no offspring, and the third likewise.

22Now the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died, too.

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

24Yeshua said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

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

26But concerning the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses about the burning bush? How God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

27He’s not the God of the dead, but of the living. You have gone far astray!”

28One of the Torah scholars came and heard them debating. Seeing that Yeshua had answered them well, he asked Him, “Which commandment is first of all?”

29Yeshua answered, “The first is, ‘Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

30And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

31The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

32“Well said, Teacher,” the Torah scholar said to Him. “You have spoken the truth, that He is echad, and besides Him there is no other!

33And ‘to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love the neighbor as oneself,’ is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34When Yeshua saw that he had answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared any longer to question Him.