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Mark 12:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. "
Mark 12:22
Verse in Context
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20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”
24 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?
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Mark 12:1
"He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country."
Mark 12:2
"When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard."
Mark 12:3
"They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty."
Mark 12:4
"Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated."
Mark 12:5
"Again he sent another, and they killed him, and many others, beating some, and killing some."
Mark 12:6
"Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’"
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