Mark 12:25

For when they rise from the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels that are in heaven.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 to them: Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye understand not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in a book of Moses, how God said to him from the bush: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

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Cross References

Matthew 22:30For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:42So also in the reviviscence of the dead. They are sown in corruption, they arise without corruption:

1 John 3:2My beloved, now are we the sons of God; and hitherto, it hath not appeared what we are to be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be in his likeness, and we shall see him as he is.

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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