6 Wed Jun 2018
Justice Causes Problems
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For 6 June 2018, Wednesday of 9th Week, based on Mark 12:18-27
Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children; and the second married her and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married her.’
Jesus said to them, ‘Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob� He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
07 June 2018 @ 4:06 am
May I add another Observation in this chapter: Jesus Arguments with God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob, who all are living. both Sadducees and Pharisees used this
Argument in Jesus times, for the Right of Israel for still owing their own land (and not the Romans). according to Talmud Translation. citing Gamliel, the teacher. Later Gamaliel in the Gospel, the teacher of Paulus.