Mark 12:25

When God makes all the dead people come alive again, no-one will be married, and no-one will be promised to anyone. Everyone will be like the angels in heaven, and they never get married.

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In The King James Version

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

In Context

24Jesus said, “You men are wrong, and this is why you are wrong. You do not know God's word properly, and you do not know about God's power!

26You people think that God will never make dead people come alive again. But don't you remember how God spoke to Moses from inside a burning bush. The story is written in God's book. God said to Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God is the God of people who are alive, not the God of people that are dead. Your thinking is all wrong!” And you can read this story in Matthew 22:34-40 and in Luke 10:25-28

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Matthew Henry on Mark 12:19-28

The Question of the Sadducees. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and… Read the whole commentary →

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