²⁷Some^ac of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,^ad came up and questioned him: ²⁸“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.^G^ae ²⁹Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children. ³⁰Also the second^H ³¹and the third took her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children. ³²Finally, the woman died too. ³³In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

³⁴Jesus told them, “The children of this age^af marry and are given in marriage.^ag ³⁵But those who are counted worthy^ah to take part in that age^ai and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶For they can no longer die,^aj because they are like angels and are children of God,^ak since they are children of the resurrection. ³⁷Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.^I^al ³⁸He is not the God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to^J him.”^am

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Footnotes

HOther add took her as wife, and he died without children
JOr with

Cross references

ac Mt 22:23–33,46; Mk 12:18–27,34
ad Ac 23:6
G Dt 25:5
ae Dt 25:5
af Lk 16:8
ag Lk 17:27
ah Ac 5:41; 2Th 1:5
ai Mk 10:30
aj 1Co 15:54–55; Rv 21:4
ak Ps 82:6; Mt 5:45; Rm 8:14,19; Gl 3:26
I Ex 3:6,15
al Ex 3:6,15–16; 4:5; Mt 1:2; Ac 3:13; 7:30–32
am Rm 6:10–11; 14:7–8; 2Co 5:14–15; Gl 2:19–20; 1Th 4:14; 5:10