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But he perceived their craftiness and said to them,
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"Show me a denarius. Whose head and whose title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."
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He said to them, "Then give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's."
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And they were not able in the presence of the people to trap him by what he said; and being amazed by his answer, they became silent.
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Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him
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and asked him a question, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless;
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and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless.
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Finally the woman also died.
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In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her."
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Jesus said to them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage;
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but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
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Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
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And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."
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Then some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you have spoken well."
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For they no longer dared to ask him another question.
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Then he said to them, "How can they say that the Messiah is David's son?
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For David himself says in the book of Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
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until I make your enemies your footstool." '
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David thus calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?"
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In the hearing of all the people he said to the disciples,
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"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets.