Mark 12:20

20 septem ergo fratres erant et primus accepit uxorem et mortuus est non relicto semine

Mark 12:20 Meaning and 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 ) ( 22:18 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew 22:25).

Mark 12:20 In-Context

18 et venerunt ad eum Sadducaei qui dicunt resurrectionem non esse et interrogabant eum dicentes

19 magister Moses nobis scripsit ut si cuius frater mortuus fuerit et dimiserit uxorem et filios non reliquerit accipiat frater eius uxorem ipsius et resuscitet semen fratri suo

20 septem ergo fratres erant et primus accepit uxorem et mortuus est non relicto semine

21 et secundus accepit eam et mortuus est et nec iste reliquit semen et tertius similiter

22 et acceperunt eam similiter septem et non reliquerunt semen novissima omnium defuncta est et mulier