The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:24
These Sadducees erred in two ways: So in these words our Lord struck at the double root of the error of the Sadducees: read more
Mark 12:18-27
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:24
Sorces of heresy. I. PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF RELIGIOUS ERROR . 1 . I gnorance of Holy Scripture. 2 . Lack of spiritual experience. "Nor the power of God." This ignorance may consist partly in ignorance of the facts of the Divine history of mankind as recorded in Scripture; but it is chiefly due to absence of personal, experimental consciousness of God in the spiritual nature. It is the " darkness of the heart" which exaggerates and intensifies the effects of general... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:25
But are as angels in heaven —not "the angels;" the οἱ is omitted. The blessed, after the resurrection, will be like angels as to purity, as to a spiritual life, as to immortality, as to happiness and glory. There will be no necessity for marriages in heaven. Here, on earth, the father dies, but he lives on in his children after death. In heaven there is no death, but every one will live and be blessed for ever; and therefore it is that St. Luke adds here, "Neither can they die any more."... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:26
St. Mark is here careful to state that what St. Matthew describes as "the word spoken by God" was to be found in the book of Moses ( Exodus 3:5 ), in the place concerning the Bush ( ἐπὶ τῆς βάτου ), as it is correctly rendered in the Revised Version. Our Lord might have brought yet clearer proofs out of Job, Daniel, Ezekiel, etc.; but in his wisdom he preferred to allege this out of Moses and the Pentateuch, because, whatever the views of the Sadducees may have been as to other... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:27
Ye therefore do greatly err . The Greek is, omitting the οὖν , simply ὑμεῖς πολὺ πλανᾶσθε , Ye greatly err. The omission is more consistent with St. Mark's usual style. The Sadducees entirely misunderstood the meaning of their own Scriptures. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 12:18-27
See this passage fully explained in the notes at Matthew 22:23-33.Mark 12:25Are as the angels - That is, as the angels in respect to connections and relations. What those connections and relations may be we know not, but this passage teaches that the special relation of “marriage” will not exist. It does not affirm, however, that there will be no recollection of former marriages, or no recognition of each other as having existed in this tender relation.Mark 12:26How in the bush - At the burning... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 12:18-20
Mark 12:18-20. These verses are explained in the notes on Matthew 22:23-33. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living That is, (if the argument be proposed at length,) since the character of his being the God of any persons, plainly intimates a relation to them, not as dead, but as living; and since he cannot be said to be at present their God at all, if they are utterly dead; nor to be the God of human persons, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, consisting of souls and bodies, if... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 12:18-27
126. Marriage and the resurrection (Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40)Next a group of Sadducees came to Jesus with a question. According to the law of Moses, if a man died childless, his brother was to have a temporary marital relationship with the widow for the purpose of producing an heir (Deuteronomy 25:5-6). The question put by the Sadducees concerned an unlikely situation where a widow would meet seven husbands, all brothers, in the resurrection. Since Sadducees did not... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 12:18
Sadducees. (No Article.) See App-120 . which = they who. Greek. hoitines, marking them as a class characterized by this denial. no. Greek. me . App-105 . As in Mark 12:19 ; not the same as in verses: Mark 12:20 , Mark 12:22 , i.e. they denied it subjectively. asked = questioned. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 12:18-27
Parallel passages: Matthew 22:23-33 ; Luke 20:27-40 .— Question of the Sadducees touching the resurrection. I. IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION . Though the question propounded in this section was proposed for a captious purpose, and in order to entangle, yet, divested of its technicalities, it is a most important one. There is no subject more closely connected with the immortal hopes of man than that to which the above section refers. The doctrine of the resurrection is implied,... read more