Mark 12:13-27

Paying Taxes to Caesar

13 ¹And they sent to him some of ²the Pharisees and some of ³the Herodians, to ⁴trap him in his talk.

14 And they came and said to him, "Teacher, ⁵we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For ⁶you are not swayed by appearances,^[a] but truly teach ⁷the way of God. Is it lawful to pay ⁸taxes to ⁹Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"

15 But, knowing ¹⁰their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why ¹¹put me to the test? Bring me ¹²a denarius^[b] and let me look at it."

16 And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's."

17 Jesus said to them, ¹³"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at him.

The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

18 And ¹⁴Sadducees came to him, ¹⁵who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,

19 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ¹⁶if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man^[c] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.

21 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.

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

23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife."

24 Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because ¹⁷you know neither the Scriptures nor ¹⁸the power of God?

25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither ¹⁹marry nor ²⁰are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

26 And as for the dead being raised, ²¹have you not read in ²²the book of Moses, in ²³the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ²⁴'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 are quite wrong."