Matthew 22:23–33

Conflict with Sadducees

Mark 12:18–27; Luke 20:27–40

^23oThe same day the Sadducees, ^pwho say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, ²⁴saying: “Teacher, ^qMoses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁵Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. ²⁶Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. ²⁷Last of all the woman died also. ²⁸Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”

²⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “You are ⁶mistaken, ^rnot knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but ^sare like angels ⁷of God in heaven. ³¹But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ^32t‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” ³³And when the multitudes heard this, ^uthey were astonished at His teaching.