Matthew 22:23–34

The Question about the Resurrection

²³The same day some Sadducees came to him saying there is no resurrection,^u and they asked him a question:^{* 24}“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’^{* 25}Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. ²⁶The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷Last of all, the woman herself died. ²⁸In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For all of them had married her.”

²⁹Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.^{* 30}For in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of God^v in heaven. ³¹And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, ³²‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead but of the living.”^{* 33}And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.^*

The Greatest Commandment

³⁴When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,