Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 12:20
Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
20. there were seven brethren ] It was probably a fictitious case, for the Jews were averse to the fulfilling of the enactment at all.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Now there were seven brethren,…. In a certain family, at a certain place; perhaps at Jerusalem, who were brethren by the father’s side; for such only were reckoned so, and such only did this law oblige:
and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed: no child: hence it is clear that the ancient Jews used the word seed, of a single person, as these Sadducees did; though modern ones deny such an use of it in our present controversies with them about the sense of Ge 3:15;
[See comments on Mt 22:25].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Took a wife ( ). So Lu 20:29. Matthew has “married” ().
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “Now there were seven brethren:” (hepta adelphoi esan) “Once there were seven brothers,” the number of numerical perfection. It was an assumed presumption of the Sadducees, (simple presumption), that future life would have its present social aspects.
2) “And the first took a wife,” (kai ho protos elaben gunaika) “And the first (of the seven) took a wife,” to establish a family name and an household, to raise up children, who are “an heritage of the Lord,” Psa 127:3.
3) “And dying left no seed.” (kai apothneskon ouk apheken sperma) “And upon dying left no seed,” no children; This is believed to have been, and was likely a fabricated story, a supposed event, that was invented as pretendedly real, by the Sadducees.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
“There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife and dying, left no seed. And the second took her and died, leaving no seed behind him. And the third did the same. And the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman died as well. In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven, for the seven had her to wife?”
The Sadducees had a very materialistic view of the resurrection as taught by others. They saw it as being intended to suggest the introduction of a new life which was simply an idealistic improvement on the present life. In that they were like the crowd, for popular views of the afterlife tended to make it an extension of this life, with whatever men long for in this life being provided more abundantly. Scripture, however, reveals things differently. It says, ‘eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into man’s heart, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him’ (1Co 2:9), and reveals that God’s Heaven is thus not just a continuation of earth with the bad things removed, but something new altogether.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
Ver. 20. See Trapp on “ Mat 22:25 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
no. Greek. ou. App-105. Some as in Mar 12:22; not the same as in verses: Mar 12:18, Mar 12:19.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Mat 22:25-28, Luk 20:29-33
Reciprocal: Mar 2:25 – Have
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Verse 20
No seed; no children.