Mark 12:23

Mar 12:23. Ὅταν ἀναστῶσι, when they shall rise again) viz. the brothers and the wife.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Mar 12:23 . τίνος αὐτῶν , etc., of which of them shall she be the wife? ( γυνή , without the article, vide notes on Mt.).

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Verse 23. When they shall rise] This clause is wanting in BCDL, four others, Syriac, later Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, Saxon, and two of the Itala. Griesbach leaves it doubtful.

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23. In the resurrection therefore] Their difficulty originated entirely in a carnal notion that the connections of this life must be continued in another.

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For when they shall rise from the dead,.... These seven brethren, and the woman; and so any, and every other:

they neither marry, nor are given marriage: there will be no such natural relation subsisting, nor any need of any:

but are as the angels which are in heaven; See Gill on Mat 22:30.

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23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

Ver. 23. {See Trapp on "Mat 22:28"}

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23. [2751][2752][2753][2754][2755][2756][2757][2758] omit οὖν (see on Mar 12:6) and ὅταν ἀναστῶσιν.

[2751] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[2752] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[2753] Codex Ephraemi. 5th cent. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out, and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it; but a great deal of the original writing has been recovered; of Mark we have Mar 1:17 to Mar 6:31, Mar 8:5 to Mar 12:29, Mar 13:19 to Mar 16:20. In the National Library at Paris.

[2754] An asterisk denotes that the word is not found elsewhere in N.T., and such words are included in the index, even if there is no note on them in the commentary.

[2755] Codex Regius. 8th cent. An important witness. At Paris. Contains Mar 1:1 to Mar 10:15; Mar 10:30 to Mar 15:1; Mar 15:20 to Mar 16:20, but the shorter ending is inserted between Mar 16:8 and Mar 16:9, showing that the scribe preferred it to the longer one.

[2756] Codex Monacensis. 10th cent. Contains Mar 6:47 to Mar 16:20. Many verses in 14, 15, 16 are defective.

[2757] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

[2758] Codex Athous Laurae. 8th cent. Like N and Σ, it is written in silver letters on purple vellum. Contains Mar 9:5 to Mar 16:20, and, as in L, the shorter ending is inserted between Mar 16:8 and Mar 16:9. As in Δ, the text of Mark is specially good.

23. τίνος αὐτῶν ἔσται γυνή; See crit. note and WH. App. p. 26. They put an extreme case; but less extreme cases were common without the action of the Levirate law. A woman often married twice, and to those who regarded the future life as similar to the present one, the question naturally arose, “Whose wife will she be?” The accepted answer seems to have been, “The wife of her first husband.” Christ might have adopted this answer, and it would have sufficed to rebut the Sadducean objection; but such an answer would have confirmed the current debasing views respecting the life to come.

ἔσχον αὐτὴν γυναῖκα. Got her as wife, a usual meaning of ἔσχον (Joh 4:18; Joh 4:52; Gal 4:22; 1Th 1:9; Phm 1:7). J. H. Moulton, p. 145. Syr-Sin. omits γυναῖκα.

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23.] ὅταν ἀναστῶσιν, here not, ‘when men (the dead) shall rise,’ but when they (the wife and seven brothers) shall rise: see on ver. 25.

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

23. ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει τίνος αὐτῶν ἔσται γυνή;—In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of them? This was probably the standing puzzle of the Sadducees, in which they sought to discredit the resurrection by reducing it to an absurdity.

Omit οὖν, therefore, before ἀναστάσει, Tisch. Treg. WH. RV. א BC* EF HLSUVX ΓΠ two mss. Lat. Vet. Omit ὄταν ἀναστῶσιν, whenever they arise. Treg. WH. RV. א BCDL Δ 28, 33, two mss. Lat. Vet. Egyptt. Pesh.

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