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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 12:18-27

The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of spirits, any state of rewards and punishments on the other side of death: now those great and fundamental truths... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 12:18-27

12:18-27 There came to Jesus Sadducees, who are a party who say that the resurrection of the dead does not exist. They put the following problem to him. "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote the law for us, that, if a man's brother dies and leaves behind him a wife, and does not leave a family, the law is that the brother should take his wife, and should raise up a family to his brother. There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, and left no family. The second took her, and he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:19

Master, Moses wrote unto us ,.... Has left in writing for us the following precept to observe; for they acknowledged the writings of Moses, and indeed all the Scriptures of the Old Testament; adhering to the literal sense of them, and rejecting the traditional interpretation of them by the Rabbins: if a man's brother die, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother ; which is the sense of the law in Deuteronomy 25:5 ; See Gill on ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:20

Now there were seven brethren ,.... In a certain family, at a certain place; perhaps at Jerusalem, who were brethren by the father's side; for such only were reckoned so, and such only did this law oblige: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed : no child: hence it is clear that the ancient Jews used the word seed, of a single person, as these Sadducees did; though modern ones deny such an use of it in our present controversies with them about the sense of Genesis 3:15 ; See... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:21

The second took her ,.... To wife, married her, as the next eldest brother, by the above law was obliged to: and so the Jewish F12 Misn. Yebamot, c. 4. sect. 5. & T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 39. 1. canon upon it runs thus; "the command is, בגדול , "for the eldest" to marry his brother's wife: if he will not, they go to all the brethren; if they will not, they return to the eldest, and say, the command is upon thee, either pluck off the shoe, or marry.' Maimonides F13 Hilch.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:22

And the seventh had her, and left no seed ,.... All, the seven brethren married her, one after another, and neither of them had any children by her: and last of all the woman died also ; after all the seven brethren, to whom she had been married. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:23

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise ,.... This last clause, "when they shall rise", is omitted in two copies of Beza's, and in the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, because, perhaps, it might be thought superfluous; but this is agreeably to the way of speaking and writing with the Jews: so in the Targum on Zechariah 3:7 , באחיות מיתיא אחינך , "in the quickening of the dead I will quicken thee"; or, in the resurrection of the dead I will raise thee. The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:24

And Jesus answering said unto them ,.... Which they thought he was not able to do, but would have been silenced at once by them, as many of their antagonists had been: do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God ? what is expressed in Matthew affirmatively, is here put by way of interrogation, which, with the Jews, was a more vehement way of affirming; See Gill on Matthew 22:29 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:25

For when they shall rise from the dead ,.... These seven brethren, and the woman; and so any, and every other: they neither marry, nor are given marriage : there will be no such natural relation subsisting, nor any need of any: but are as the angels which are in heaven ; See Gill on Matthew 22:30 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 12:26

And as touching the dead, that they rise ,.... For the proof of the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read in the book of Moses ; that is, in the law of Moses; for though it was divided into five parts, it was but one book; just as the Psalms are called the Book of Psalms, Acts 1:20 , and the Prophets, the Book of the Prophets, Acts 7:42 . The book of Exodus is particularly intended; for the passage referred to is in Exodus 3:6 , how in the bush God spake... read more

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