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27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
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Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
28 and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
30 And the second
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The second
31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.
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and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
32 Afterward the woman also died.
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Finally, the woman died too.
33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."
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Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
34 And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
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Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
35 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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But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
36 for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
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and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.
37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
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But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him."
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He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
39 Then some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you have spoken well."
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Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!”
40 For they no longer dared to ask him any question.
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And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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