Luke 20:27–38

Is There a Resurrection?

^27aNow there came to Him some of the ^bSadducees (who say that there is no resurrection),

²⁸and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^aif a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should ¹marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

²⁹“Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

³⁰and the second

³¹and the third ¹married her; and in the same way ²all seven ³died, leaving no children.

³²“Finally the woman died also.

³³“In the resurrection therefore, which one’s wife will she be? For ¹all seven ²had married her.”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “The sons of ^athis age marry and are given in marriage,

³⁵but those who are considered worthy to attain to ^athat age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

³⁶for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are ^asons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

³⁷“But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in ^athe passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord ^bthe God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

³⁸“^aNow He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for ^ball live to Him.”