Marriage and the Resurrection

20:27 Now some Sadducees67 (who contend that there is no resurrection)68 came to him. 20:28 They asked him,69 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man70 must marry71 the widow and father children72 for his brother.73 20:29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman74 and died without children. 20:30 The second75 20:31 and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children. 20:32 Finally the woman died too. 20:33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be?76 For all seven had married her.”77

20:34 So78 Jesus said to them, “The people of this age79 marry and are given in marriage. 20:35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in80 that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.81 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels82 and are sons of God, since they are83 sons84 of the resurrection. 20:37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised85 in the passage about the bush,86 where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.87 20:38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living,88 for all live before him.”89 20:39 Then90 some of the experts in the law91 answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”92 20:40 For they did not dare any longer to ask93 him anything.