Luke 20:20–38

²⁰And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.

²¹And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

²²Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no?

²³But he, considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me?

²⁴Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him: Caesar’s.

²⁵And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things, that are Caesar’s: and to God the things that are God’s.

²⁶And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace.

²⁷And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection: and they asked him,

²⁸Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us: If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

²⁹There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife and died without children.

³⁰And the next took her to wife: and he also died childless.

³¹And the third took her. And in like manner, all the seven: and they left no children and died.

³²Last of all the woman died also.

³³In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife.

³⁴And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry and are given in marriage:

³⁵But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives.

³⁶Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

³⁷Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord: The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

³⁸For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.