Mark 12:18-44 ▼

18 And some Sadducees, who say there is not a resurrection, come to Him. And they were questioning Him, saying,

19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if anyone’s brother should die and leave behind a wife and not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and should raise up seed for his brother.

20 There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed.

21 And the second took her and died, not having left behind seed; and the third likewise.

22 And the seven left no seed. Last of all, the woman also died.

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

24 Jesus was saying to them, “Do you? not go astray because of this, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

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

26 But concerning the dead, that they rise, did you? not read in the book of Moses, at the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?

27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You? go astray greatly!”

28 And one of the scribes having come, having heard them reasoning together, having seen that He answered them well, questioned Him, “Which commandment is first of all?”

29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.

30 And you shall love the Lord your God out of all your heart and out of all your soul and out of all your mind and out of all your strength.’

31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is not another commandment greater than these.”

32 And the scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher; You have spoken according to truth that He is One and that there is not another besides Him,

33 and to love Him out of all the heart and out of all the understanding and out of all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34 And Jesus, having seen him that he answered wisely, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any longer.

35 And answering, Jesus was saying, teaching in the temple, “How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”’

37 David himself calls Him ‘Lord.’ And from where is He his son?” And the great crowd was listening to Him gladly.

38 And in His teaching He was saying, “Beware of the scribes, who are wanting to walk about in long robes and greetings in the marketplaces,

39 and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at the suppers—

40 those devouring the houses of widows and praying long as a pretext. These will receive more abundant judgment.”

41 And having sat down opposite the treasury, He was watching how the crowd casts money into the treasury; and many rich ones were casting in much.

42 And having come, one poor widow cast in two lepta, which is a kodrantes.

43 And having summoned His disciples, He said to them, “Truly I say to you? that this poor widow cast in more than all of those casting into the treasury.

44 For all cast in out of that which is abounding to them, but she out of her poverty cast in all, as much as she had—her whole livelihood.”