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!”

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Footnotes

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