Mark 12:18-19

A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

18 And Sadducees--who say there is no resurrection--came up to him and began to ask him, saying,

19 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone's brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

Footnotes

• [a] The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to ask")
• [b] Literally "raise up"