A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection
27 Now some of the Sadducees--who deny {that there is a resurrection}--came up [and] asked him,
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saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife [and] died childless,
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and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died.
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Finally the woman also died.
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Therefore in the resurrection, the woman--whose wife will she be? For the seven had her [as] wife."
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And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
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but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and [to] the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
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for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, [because they] are sons of the resurrection.
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But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in [the passage about] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and [the] God of Isaac and [the] God of Jacob.
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Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"
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And some of the scribes answered [and] said, "Teacher, you have spoken well."
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For they no longer dared to ask him anything.