Mark 12:20

12:20 There were seven brothers. The first one married, ¹  and when he died he had no children.

Mark 12:26

12:26 Now as for the dead being raised, ²  have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, ³  how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the ⁴  God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ⁵ 

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¹ tn Grk “took a wife” (an idiom for marrying a woman).

² tn Grk “Now as for the dead that they are raised.”

³ sn See Exod 3:6. Jesus used a common form of rabbinic citation here to refer to the passage in question.

⁴ tn Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.