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.’

³⁹And certain of the scribes answering said, ‘Teacher, thou didst say well;’ ⁴⁰and no more durst they question him anything.

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