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. ^q^r²⁹Now 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. ^a^b³⁸He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to ^cHim.” ^d

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Footnotes

s20:30 Other add took her as wife, and he died without children
t20:33 had her as wife
c20:38 Or with

Cross references

o20:27–40 Mt 22:23–33, 46; Mk 12:18–27, 34
p20:27 Ac 23:6
q20:28 Dt 25:5
r20:28 Dt 25:5
u20:34 Lk 16:8
v20:34 Lk 17:27
w20:35 Ac 5:41; 2Th 1:5
x20:35 Mk 10:30
y20:36 1Co 15:54–55; Rv 21:4
z20:36 Ps 82:6; Mt 5:45; Rm 8:14, 19; Gl 3:26
a20:37 Ex 3:6, 15–16; 4:5; Mt 1:2; Ac 3:13; 7:30–32
b20:37 Ex 3:6, 15
d20:38 Rm 6:10–11; 14:7–8; 2Co 5:14–15; Gl 2:19–20; 1Th 4:14; 5:10