Mark 12:19

" 'Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ...' "

This comes from the well-known passage in which the Sadducees use a hypothetical to challenge Jesus and try to disprove the resurrection. Here is the footnote to this verse from the Reformation Study Bible, edited by R.C. Sproul: "The story they tell to Jesus is based on the 'kinsman-redeemer' law of Deut. 25:5-10, which provides for a family line to be perpetuated by the nearest of kin in the event of a premature death."

Wow! The kinsman-redeemer, especially as seen in Boaz, is a type of Christ, the true Bridegroom. The Sadducees try to trip up Jesus with a passage about Himself! Well He said, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?" As Luke 24:27 attests, truly all of Scripture is about Him and no other.