A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

18 And Sadducees—who say there is no resurrection—came up to him and began to ask[fn] him, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and ⌊father⌋[fn] descendants for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he[fn] died, he did not leave descendants. 21 And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise. 22 And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection, when they rise, ⌊whose⌋[fn] wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife. 24 Jesus said to them, “Are you not deceived because of this, because you[fn] do not know the scriptures or the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 26 Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses ⌊in the passage about the bush⌋[fn] how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?[fn] 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!”