angels) came to him with their trick question about the condition in the next world of a woman married and widowed seven times, he replied: “You do greatly err” or (RSV) “Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?” (Mark 12:24). He went on to refute them, not only in the silly problem they had propounded to him, but in their whole theological position, by quoting Exodus 3:6 and expounding its implications. As for the Scribes and Pharisees, Jesus rejected