Mark 12:25 Meaning and Explanation
“For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.”
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What Does Mark 12:25 Mean?
Jesus first corrects the Sadducees' picture of the resurrection. Their puzzle assumed that the age to come merely resumes the arrangements of this one, including the levirate remarriages their story was built upon. He answers that risen life is of another order: deathless, like the angels, no longer governed by the necessities death imposes.
The levirate provision existed because death kept cutting families short; where death is no more, that provision has no work left to do. The seven brothers' dilemma does not carry into the resurrection, because resurrection is not a rerun of mortality but life transformed by the power of God. The answer rebukes small imaginations: what God prepares is not less than this life, but beyond its losses.
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What does Mark 12:25 mean?
Jesus says that when the dead rise they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.