Mar 12:21-25 | JFB | STEP | 19-22. Master, Moses wrote unto us-- ( ). If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him ... And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

‏ Mark 12:21-25

19-22. Master, Moses wrote unto us--(De 25:5).

If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him ... And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

23. In the resurrection therefore when they shall rise, &c.

24. Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures--regarding the future state.

neither the power of God?--before which a thousand such difficulties vanish.

25. For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage--"neither can they die any more" (Lu 20:36). Marriage is ordained to perpetuate the human family; but as there will be no breaches by death in the future state, this ordinance will cease.

but are as the angels which are in heaven--In Luke (Lu 20:36) it is "equal unto the angels." But as the subject is death and resurrection, we are not warranted to extend the equality here taught beyond the one point--the immortality of their nature. A beautiful clause is added in Luke (Lu 20:36)--"and are the children of God"--not in respect of character, which is not here spoken of, but of nature--"being the children of the resurrection," as rising to an undecaying existence (Ro 8:21, 23), and so being the children of their Father's immortality (1Ti 6:16).