What Does Mark 12:23 Mean in the King James?
In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
English separates “resurrection” from “rise,” while Greek makes them echoes of standing up, turning the question into whether present marriage claims still stand in risen life.
THE MEANING
The seven men’s marriage claims press against the idea of resurrection: which bond defines the woman when they rise? The question reveals how readily the reader carries the present order of marriage into the life named as resurrection.
THE ROOT
ἀναστάσει
anastasei
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
to stand; to set upright
The noun ἀνάστασις (anastasis, “rising; resurrection”) and the verb ἀνίστημι (anistēmi, “stand up; rise”) share the standing stem ἵστημι (histēmi, “stand”). That makes “resurrection” and “rise” a root echo: the question asks whether the present marriage claim still stands when the dead stand again.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: to stand up; to rise
ἀνίστημι
The verse’s verb ἀναστῶσιν (anastōsin, “they rise”) belongs to this same word family, though English gives the noun and verb different sounds.
stasis: standing; position
στάσις
This related noun makes the standing image visible inside “resurrection”: the word carries the sense of rising to stand.
THE PATTERN
Rising from death brings a life whose form exceeds the conditions of mortal life.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:THE THREAD
For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.This verse answers the question by naming a changed order: those who rise neither marry nor are given in marriage. The marriage categories raised in the question do not govern resurrection life in the same way.
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