²⁷Some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Jesus. They asked him, ²⁸“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry his widow and have children for his brother.’ ²⁹There were seven brothers. The first got married and died without having children. ³⁰Then the second brother married the widow, ³¹and so did the third. In the same way all seven brothers married the widow, died, and left no children. ³²Finally, the woman died. ³³Now, when the dead come back to life, whose wife will she be? The seven brothers had married her.”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “In this world people get married. ³⁵But people who are considered worthy to come back to life and live in the next world will neither marry ³⁶nor die anymore. They are the same as the angels. They are God’s children who have come back to life.

³⁷“Even Moses showed in the passage about the bush that the dead come back to life. He says that the Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ³⁸He’s not the God of the dead but of the living. In God’s sight all people are living.”

³⁹Some experts in Moses’ Teachings responded, “Teacher, that was well said.” ⁴⁰From that time on, no one dared to ask him another question.

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