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Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
οἱ ἑπτὰ
the seven
The Sadducees are using the number seven as a noun to mean the seven brothers. Your language may use numbers in the same way. If not, you could translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: [the seven brothers]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
οὐκ ἀφῆκαν σπέρμα
not left seed
Here the Sadducees imply that all seven brothers married the woman and died without leaving seed. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [all married her, one by one, and all of them died, not leaving seed]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
σπέρμα
seed
Here, the Sadducees are speaking of offspring as if they were seed. See how you translated the similar use of this word in 12:19. Alternate translation: [offspring]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
πάντων
˱of˲_all
The Sadducees are using the adjective all as a noun to mean all the people they have mentioned. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: [of all those people]
12:18-27 This is the third controversy story of the series begun in 11:27. As in most New Testament references to the Sadducees, the setting is the Temple (Matt 22:23-33 // Luke 20:27-40; Acts 4:1-3; 5:12, 17; 22:30–23:10; the exceptions are Matt 3:7; 16:1-12).
• The Sadducees’ question (Mark 12:19-23) was carefully crafted and based on a commandment of Moses (Deut 25:5-6; see Gen 38:6-11; Ruth 4:1-22). Since all seven men could not have the woman as wife in the resurrection, and since none of them had a special claim, the Sadducees thought that they had proven the absurdity of the doctrine of the resurrection and refuted the Pharisees and Jesus (cp. Matt 12:41-42; Luke 16:19-31; see also Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:34).
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.