Mark Chapter 12 verse 18 Holy Bible
And there come unto him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
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And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,
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And Sadducees come to him, that say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him saying,
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Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
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There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
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And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 18-23. - And there come unto him Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection. Josephus states that in the time of Judas Maceabaeus there were three sects of the Jews, differing amongst themselves, namely, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. The Hebrew word Zadoc, from which the Sadducees derive their name, means "just." or" righteous." These Sadducees accepted the Pentateuch, and probably more than the Pentateuch; but they rejected any oral tradition. They were known in the time of our Lord as denying those doctrines which connect us more immediately with another world, such as the existence of spirits and of angels, and the resurrection of the body. They altogether denied fate, affirming that all things are in our own power. They heard Christ preach the resurrection, and by means of it persuade men to repentance and a holy life. They therefore proposed to him a question which appeared to them to be fatal to the doctrine of a future state and a resurrection. The case supposed is that of seven brethren, who, in compliance with the Law of Moses, one after another, as each died in succession, took the same woman to wife. It is probable that such a case may actually have occurred; at any rate, it was a possible case. And the question founded upon it by the Sadducees was this - Whose wife would she be of them in the resurrection? Here, then, they hoped to entangle him, and to show that the doctrine of the resurrection was absurd. For if our Lord should say that in the resurrection she would be the wife of one only, the other brethren would have been excited to envy and continual strife. Nor could he have said that she would be common to the seven brothers. Such were the absurdities which, as they intimated, would flow out of his doctrine of the resurrection, if it could be proved. But our Lord scatters to the winds all this foolish reasoning, by adding one clause omitted by them, and overlooked by men of mere earthly minds, namely, that in the world to come this widow would be the wife of none of the seven brethren.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18-27) Then come unto him the Sadducees.--See Notes on Matthew 22:15-22.
