Mark 12:20 — Meaning and Application

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“Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.”

Mark 12:20

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Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

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.

Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

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Mark 12:1

"And he began to speak unto them by parables. A {certain} man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about {it}, and digged {a place for} the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country."

Mark 12:2

"And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard."

Mark 12:3

"And they caught {him}, and beat him, and sent {him} away empty."

Mark 12:4

"And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded {him} in the head, and sent {him} away shamefully handled."

Mark 12:5

"And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some."

Mark 12:6

"Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son."

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