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.