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The Gospel of Mark Chapter 12:1-17 The Resurrection 18 - 27. 12.18. Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him, The Pharisees and the Herodians had sought to trap Jesus and failed now it was the turn of the Sadducees. These were a religious party who denied that the Israelites received the spoken law given by God to Moses and maintained that the written law only was legal and to be kept. Secondly they denied man's resurrection after death. Also that there are no angels or spirits and no future punishment and rewards (Acts 23: 8). 12.19. "Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.' They came to Jesus not with an inquiring mind but to mock. In order to do this they use the written law of Moses. 12:20 There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children. They state a ridiculous hypothetical situation, a made up story to suit their own purposes. 12:21 - 23. The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third. None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too. In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her." They pretended to want to know whose wife this woman would be after the resurrection if in fulfilling of the law of Moses she had married seven brothers (Deut. 25: 5 - 6). 12.24. Jesus said to them, "Aren't you deceived for this reason, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God? His answer to these so called experts in the law was that they had no understanding of the word of God (1 Tim. 1: 7) and were ignorant of His power.