Mark 12:18 Cross References

Mark 12:18

18: Then the Sadducees stepped forward--a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death. They posed this question:

That same day some Sadducees stepped forward--a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death. They posed this question:
"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will be the brother's heir.'
Well, there were seven brothers. The oldest married and then died without children, so the second brother married the widow.
This brother also died without children, and the wife was married to the next brother, and so on until she had been the wife of each of them.
And then she also died.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the leading priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees came over to them.
They were very disturbed that Peter and John were claiming, on the authority of Jesus, that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Then some Sadducees stepped forward--a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death.
They posed this question: "Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man dies, leaving a wife but no children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will be the brother's heir.
Well, there were seven brothers. The oldest married and then died without children.
His brother married the widow, but he also died. Still no children.
And so it went, one after the other, until each of the seven had married her and died, leaving no children.

Paul realized that some members of the high council were Sadducees and some were Pharisees, so he shouted, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, as were all my ancestors! And I am on trial because my hope is in the resurrection of the dead!"
This divided the council--the Pharisees against the Sadducees--
for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, but the Pharisees believe in all of these.
So a great clamor arose. Some of the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees jumped up to argue that Paul was all right. "We see nothing wrong with him," they shouted. "Perhaps a spirit or an angel spoke to him."

For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either.
And if Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.
And we apostles would all be lying about God, for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there is no resurrection of the dead.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins.

They have left the path of truth, preaching the lie that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; and they have undermined the faith of some.

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