Matthew 22:23-25

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The question of the resurrection

²³The same day some Sadducees came to him. (The Sadducees deny the resurrection.) Their question was this.

²⁴“Teacher,” they began, “Moses said, ‘If a man dies without children, his brother should marry his widow and raise up seed for his brother.’ ²⁵Well now, there were seven brothers living among us. The first got married, and then died, and since he didn’t have children he left his wife to his brother.

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Matthew 22:23-25

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Marriage at the Resurrection^(A)

²³That same day the Sadducees,^(B) who say there is no resurrection,^(C) 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.^(D) ²⁵Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.