¹³And they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him so that they could catch him unawares in a statement. ¹⁴And when they^* came, they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and you do not care what anyone thinks,^d because you do not regard the opinion of people^e but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?” ¹⁵But because he^* knew their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I can look at it!”^* ¹⁶So they brought one.^* And he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” And they said to him, “Caesar’s.” ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!” And they were utterly amazed at him.

A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

¹⁸And Sadducees—who say there is no resurrection—came up to him and began to ask^f him, saying, ¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone’s brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and father^g descendants for his brother. ²⁰There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he^* died, he did not leave descendants. ²¹And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise. ²²And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died. ²³In the resurrection, when they rise, whose^h wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife. ²⁴Jesus said to them, “Are you not deceived because of this, because you^* do not know the scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the passage about the bushⁱ how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?^j ²⁷He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!”

The Greatest Commandment

²⁸And one of the scribes came up and^* heard them debating. When he^* saw that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” ²⁹Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.’^k ³¹The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’^l There is no other commandment greater than these.” ³²And the scribe said to him, “That is true, Teacher. You have said correctly^m that he is one and there is no other except him. ³³And to love him from yourⁿ whole heart and from your^o whole understanding and from your^p whole strength, and to love your^q neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ³⁴And Jesus, when he^* saw that he had answered thoughtfully, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to put a question to him any longer.

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Footnotes

*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“came”) which is understood as temporal
dLiterally “it is not a care to you concerning anyone”
eLiterally “because you do not look at the face of men”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“knew”) which is understood as causal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
fThe imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to ask”)
gLiterally “raise up”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“died”) which is understood as temporal
hLiterally “who of them”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
iLiterally “at the bush”
jA quotation from Exod 3:6
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
kA quotation from Deut 6:4–5; Josh 22:5
lA quotation from Lev 19:18
mLiterally “in accordance with truth”
nLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
oLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
pLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
qLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal