The Sadducees and the Resurrection

²³ The same day some Sadducees,^(A) who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him:^{(B) 24} “Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.^{(C)[a] 25} Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ The same happened to the second also, and the third, and so to all seven.^{[b] 27} Then last of all the woman died. ²⁸ In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”^[c]

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like^[d] angels in heaven.^{(D) 31} Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God: ³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?^(E)[e] He^[f] is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

³³ And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

⁴⁶ No one was able to answer Him at all,^[a] and from that day no one dared to question Him anymore.^(A)

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

¹⁸ Some^(A) Sadducees,^(B) who say there is no resurrection,^(C) came to Him and questioned Him: ¹⁹ “Teacher,^(D) Moses^(E) wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child,^(F) his brother should take the wife^(G) and produce offspring for his brother.^{(H)[a] 20} There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring. ²¹ The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² So the seven^[b] left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise,^[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”^[d]

²⁴ Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures^(I) or the power^(J) of God?^{(K) 25} For when they rise^(L) from the dead,^(M) they neither marry nor are given in marriage^(N) but are like angels^(O) in heaven. ²⁶ Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I^(P) am the God of Abraham^(Q) and the God of Isaac^(R) and the God of Jacob?^{(S)[e] 27} He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”

³⁴ When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”^(A) And no one dared^(B) to question Him any longer.