The Sadducees and the Resurrection

(Mark 12:18–27, Luke 20:27–40)

That [same] day [the] Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to [Jesus] and questioned Him. 24 “Teacher,” they said,“Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for [him].[fn] 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first [one] married and died without having children. [So] he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third [brothers], down to the seventh. 27 And last of all, the woman also[fn] died. 28 In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”

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Jesus answered“You are mistaken [because] vvv you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 In the resurrection, vvv [people] will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like [the] angels of God[fn] in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, vvv have you not read what God said to you 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[fn]? He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living.”

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When the crowds heard [this], they were astonished at His teaching.

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