A Question about the Resurrection^(A)

¹⁸ Then some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus^[a] and asked him, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.^{[b] 20} There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children. ²¹ Then the second married her and died without having children, and so did the third. ²² None of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died, too. ²³ In the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?”^[c]

²⁴ Jesus answered them, “Aren’t you mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power? ²⁵ When people^[d] rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ As for the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?^{[e] 27} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

A Question about the Resurrection^(A)

²⁷ Now some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus^{[a] 28} and asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man^[b] should marry the widow and have children for his brother. ²⁹ Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died childless. ³⁰ Then the second ³¹ and the third married her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children. ³² Finally, the woman died, too. ³³ Now in the resurrection, whose wife will the woman be, since the seven had married her?”

³⁴ Jesus told them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are married, ³⁵ but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God’s children. ³⁷ Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’^{[c] 38} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him.”

³⁹ Then some of the scribes replied, “Teacher, you have given a fine answer.” ⁴⁰ Then they no longer dared to ask him another question.