Mark 12:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

Mark 12:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 22:25-28
Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: …
Luke 20:29-33
There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-27)

The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of spirits, any st…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

19-22. Master, Moses wrote unto us--(De 25:5). If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him ... And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.