Mark lesson 27
Read Mark 12:13-27 – https://www.bible.com/bible/59/mrk.12.esv
Mark 12:13-17
The Jews were desperately seeking to discredit Jesus. To do so, various
groups began to ask Him questions designed to trap Him. They asked about
paying taxes. At this time, the Jews were ruled by the Romans, who were
the ones receiving the tax money. The people hated the Roman government
and thought it was contrary to the will of God. They thought Jesus
would be trapped. If He said not to pay taxes, He would be guilty of
treason and liable to prosecution by Rome. If He told them to pay, the
Jewish people would view Him as a traitor and even disloyal to God.
Jesus didn't answer the question at first. Instead, He requested a coin.
He asked whose name and picture were on it. They replied, Caesar's.
Since you put your name and picture on something you own, Caesar's
markings on the coin showed that it belonged to him. The Jews had no
right to withhold Caesar's property from him when he requested it. So
Jesus said simply: Give back to Caesar what belongs to him; and give to
God what belongs to Him. His answer could not be challenged. It still
provides the basis for our relationship to government. We should pay our
taxes and serve the Lord.
1. What question was Jesus asked (v14)? Answer: Is it lawful to _____ to Caesar.
2. What answer did Jesus give (v17)? Answer: Render to Caesar the things that are _____ and to God the things that are _____
Mark 12:18-27
The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection. They asked a question
designed to show that the doctrine of the resurrection was absurd. It
involved the invented case of a woman who was married to seven brothers
in succession. They asked Jesus to tell them whose wife she would be in
the resurrection, since all of them had been married to her. Jesus'
reply revealed the ignorance of the Sadducees: There is no marriage in
heaven. Furthermore, Jesus showed how even the Old Testament proved the
resurrection. He cited the text where God appeared to Moses in the
burning bush and described Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, even though they had been dead for hundreds of years. If death
was the end of existence (as the Sadducees believed), then God would
have been calling Himself the God of that which doesn't exist. For God
to call Himself their God, in some sense Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must
still have been "alive," thus disproving the Sadducees' view of death.
3. What did the Sadducees believe? Answer: They believed there is no _____
4. How did Jesus answer their question about marriage? Answer: He said that, when we rise from the dead, there will be no _____
5. How did Jesus prove the Sadducees' belief about resurrection was
wrong? Answer: He quoted a passage in which God said, "I am the _____ of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," even after those men were dead.