Luke 20:20–38

²⁰And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor, ²¹and they questioned him, saying, ‘Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach; ²²Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?’ ²³And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, ‘Why me do ye tempt? ²⁴shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?’ and they answering said, ‘Of Caesar:’ ²⁵and he said to them, ‘Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;’ ²⁶and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

²⁷And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him, ²⁸saying, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one’s brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless—that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

²⁹‘There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, ³⁰and the second took the wife, and he died childless, ³¹and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven—they left not children, and they died; ³²and last of all died also the woman: ³³in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife?—for the seven had her as wife.’ ³⁴And Jesus answering said to them, ‘The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, ³⁵but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage; ³⁶for neither are they able to die any more—for they are like messengers—and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

³⁷‘And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; ³⁸and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.’