Matthew 22:15–32

Paying Taxes to Caesar

¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and consulted^e so that they could entrap him with a statement. ¹⁶And they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not care what anyone thinks,^f because you do not regard the opinion of people.^{g 17}Therefore tell us what you think. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” ¹⁸But because he^* knew their maliciousness, Jesus said, “Hypocrites! Why are you testing me? ¹⁹Show me the coin for the tax!” So they brought him a denarius. ²⁰And he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” ²¹They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!” ²²And when they^* heard this,^* they were astonished, and they left him and^* went away.

A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

²³On that day Sadducees—who say there is no resurrection—came up to him and asked him, ²⁴saying, “Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and father^h descendants for his brother. ²⁵Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after^* getting married, and because he^* did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶So also the second and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷And last of all the woman died. ²⁸In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her as wife.”^{* 29}But Jesus answered and^* said to them, “You are mistaken, because^* you do not know the scriptures or the power of God! ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of Godⁱ in heaven. ³¹Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, who said, ³²“I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”?^j He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!”