²⁰And they watched him^* closely and^* sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor. ²¹And they asked him, saying, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not show partiality,^c but teach the way of God in truth. ²²Is it permitted for us to pay taxes^d to Caesar or not?” ²³But seeing through their craftiness, he said to them, ²⁴“Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?” And they answered and^* said,^e “Caesar’s.” ²⁵So he said to them, “Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!” ²⁶And they were not able to catch him^*^f in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became silent.

A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

²⁷Now some of the Sadducees—who deny that there is a resurrection^g—came up and^* asked him, ²⁸saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone’s brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and father^h descendants for his brother. ²⁹Now there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and^* died childless, ³⁰and the second, ³¹and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died. ³²Finally the woman also died. ³³Therefore in the resurrection, the woman—whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.” ³⁴And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, ³⁵but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, ³⁶for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, because they^* are sons of the resurrection. ³⁷But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in the passage about^* the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ³⁸Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!”

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Luke 20:25: He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Footnotes

*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“watched closely”) has been translated as a finite verb
cLiterally “receive face”
dOr “the tribute tax”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
eSome manuscripts have “And they said”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
fSome manuscripts explicitly state “him”
gLiterally “resurrection not to exist”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
hLiterally “raise up”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
*The words “the passage about” are not in the Greek text but are implied; here a common form of rabbinic citation is being used to refer to an Old Testament passage