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Matthew 22:18-28
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Matthew 22:18-28
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Jesus knew they were up to no good. He said, "Why are you playing these games with me? Why are you trying to trap me?
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Do you have a coin? Let me see it." They handed him a silver piece.
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"This engraving - who does it look like? And whose name is on it?"
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They said, "Caesar." "Then give Caesar what is his, and give God what is his."
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The Pharisees were speechless. They went off shaking their heads.
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That same day, Sadducees approached him. This is the party that denies any possibility of resurrection.
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They asked, "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies childless, his brother is obligated to marry his widow and get her with child.
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Here's a case where there were seven brothers. The first brother married and died, leaving no child, and his wife passed to his brother.
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The second brother also left her childless, then the third - and on and on, all seven.
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Eventually the wife died.
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Now here's our question: At the resurrection, whose wife is she? She was a wife to each of them."
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