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22 This reply staggered them and they went away and let him alone.

Jesus exposes the ignorance of the Sadducees

23-28 On the same day some Sadducees (who deny that there is any resurrection) approached Jesus with this question: “Master, Moses said if a man should die without any children, his brother should marry his widow and raise up a family for him. Now, we have a case of seven brothers. The first one married and died, and since he had no family he left his wife to his brother. The same thing happened with the second and the third, right up to the seventh. Last of all the woman herself died. Now in this ‘resurrection’, whose wife will she be of these seven men—for she belonged to all of them?”

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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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