Luke 20:20–38

God and Caesar

²⁰They ^tuwatched closely ^vand sent spies ^wwho pretended to be righteous, ^xso they could catch Him in what He said, ^yzto hand Him ^aover to the governor’s ^brule and authority. ²¹They questioned Him, “Teacher, we know that You speak and teach correctly, ^cand You don’t show partiality, ^debut teach truthfully the way of God. ^f22Is it lawful ^gfor us to pay taxes ^hto Caesar ⁱor not?”

²³But detecting their craftiness, He said to them, ^j24“Show Me a ^•denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

²⁵“Well then,” He told them, “give back to Caesar ^kthe things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”

²⁶They were not able to catch Him in what He said ^lin public, ^mand being amazed at His answer, they became silent. ⁿ

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

²⁷Some ^oof the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, ^pcame 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. ^qr29Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children. ³⁰Also the second ^s31and 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.” ^t

³⁴Jesus told them, “The sons of this age ^umarry and are given in marriage. ^v35But those who are counted worthy ^wto take part in that age ^xand in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶For they cannot die anymore, ^ybecause they are like angels and are sons of God, ^zsince they are sons 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. ^ab38He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to ^cHim.” ^d