NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Mark 12:21

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The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

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Mark 12:18–24

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Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

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“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’

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There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

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The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

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and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

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In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

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Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?

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