Mark 12:18

18 Then come to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

Mark 12:18 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 12:18

Then came unto him the Sadducees
The same day, immediately after he had silenced the Pharisees and Herodians: these were a set of men distinct from the former, in some of their sentiments, especially in their religions ones, and particularly in the following:

which say there is no resurrection:
of the dead, in a literal sense, either general or particular; (See Gill on Matthew 22:23);

and they asked him, saying;
as in the next verse.

Mark 12:18 In-Context

16 And they brought [it]: and he saith to them, Whose [is] this image and superscription? And they said to him, Cesar's.

17 And Jesus answering, said to them, Render to Cesar the things that are Cesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they wondered at him.

18 Then come to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

19 Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother shall die, and leave [his] wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise seed to his brother.

20 Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.