Luke 20:27–38

Some Sadducees Try to Trick Jesus

²⁷Some Sadducees, who believed people would not rise from the dead, came to Jesus. ²⁸They asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, then that man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. ²⁹Once there were seven brothers. The first brother married and died, but had no children. ³⁰Then the second brother married the widow, and he died. ³¹And the third brother married the widow, and he died. The same thing happened with all seven brothers; they died and had no children. ³²Finally, the woman died also. ³³Since all seven brothers had married her, whose wife will she be when people rise from the dead?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “On earth, people marry and are given to someone to marry. ³⁵But those who will be worthy to be raised from the dead and live again will not marry, nor will they be given to someone to marry. ³⁶In that life they are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from the dead. ³⁷Even Moses clearly showed that the dead are raised to life. When he wrote about the burning bush, ⁿ he said that the Lord is ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ ^{n 38}God is the God of the living, not the dead, because all people are alive to him.”