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.

³⁹And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.

⁴⁰And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.

⁴¹But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of David?

⁴²And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,

⁴³Till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

⁴⁴David then calleth him Lord. And how is he his son?

⁴⁵And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples:

⁴⁶Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

⁴⁷Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

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