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22 And having heard it, they marveled. And having left Him, they went away.

The Sadducees Try To Snare Jesus On The Resurrection of a Wife With Seven Husbands

23 On that day Sadducees came to Him— ones saying that there is not a resurrection. And they questioned Him, 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said [in Deut 25:5] ‘If someone dies not having children, his brother shall as-next-of-kin-marry[a] his wife and raise-up a seed[b] for his brother’.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:24 This marriage-as-next-of-kin is called ‘levirite’ marriage (from a Latin word meaning ‘brother-in-law’).
  2. Matthew 22:24 That is, offspring; and thus, a posterity.

22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.(A)

Marriage at the Resurrection(B)

23 That same day the Sadducees,(C) who say there is no resurrection,(D) came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.(E)

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