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.”^* ²⁹But 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!”

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Footnotes

hLiterally “raise up”
*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“getting married”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have”) which is understood as causal
*The words “as wife” are not in the Greek text but are implied
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
iSome manuscripts omit “of God”
jA quotation from Exod 3:6