¹⁶And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

¹⁷Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

¹⁸But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

¹⁹Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

²⁰And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?

²¹They say to him: Caesar’s. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God, the things that are God’s.

²²And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways.

²³That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

²⁴Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.

²⁵Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

²⁶In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the seventh.

²⁷And last of all the woman died also.

²⁸At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her.

²⁹And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

³⁰For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

³¹And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:

³²I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

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