Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Mark 12: 18-27

June 3, 2026 | Wednesday

Today’s Gospel 

The Sadducees also came to Jesus. Since they claim that there is no resurrection, they questioned him in this way, “Master, in the Scriptures Moses gave us this law: If anyone dies and leaves a wife but no children, his brother must take the woman, and, with her, have a baby, who will be considered the child of his deceased brother. Now, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife, but he died without leaving any children. The second took the wife, and he also died, leaving no children. The same thing happened to the third. In fact, all seven brothers died, leaving no children. Last of all, the woman died. Now, in the resurrection, to which of them will she be wife? For all seven brothers had her as wife.” 

Jesus replied, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry, but are like the angels in heaven. 

Now, about the resurrection of the dead, have you never had thoughts about the burning bush in the book of Moses? God said to Moses: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living. You are totally wrong.”

 Today’s Reflection

Almost all of the religious authorities were attacking Jesus. They were not ready to hear any words from him that made them uncomfortable or which challenged their own beliefs. In the Gospel, the Sadducees tried to test Jesus about the resurrection. They could not comprehend the mystery of the dead being raised. Jesus answered them that God is the God of the living not of the dead. He is a living and a loving God.

Sometimes, we ask the same things: “Does heaven exist? What is it like?” Certainly, we do not possess any concrete answer to this mystery but Jesus wants us to rely on the fact that God is the God of the living, who always desires life for all of us. May today’s Gospel reading invite us to rely on God’s love which transforms us.

/Vulnerasti, 2026