12:27
“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!” God surely is the God of the living, there is not much point being the God of the dead! This also implies that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive and will be raised. There is no record of the response in Mark’s gospel, though Luke says that no one dared to ask Him anymore questions.
12:28
We now get another questioner, this time one of the teachers of the Law. This time the question is not hostile Schnabel posits the possibility that the questioner may start off as being hostile, but there really does not seem to be any evidence for this in the text. The questioner notices “that Jesus had given them a good answer”. This would suggest that the man was a Pharisee, or at least sympathetic to them. He then asks which is the most important commandment? Now why does he do this? It could be a further test of Jesus, or it could be the man trying to prove how clever he is!
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