God and Caesar
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.
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They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don't show partiality.
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Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
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But perceiving their malice, Jesus said, "Why are you testing Me, hypocrites?
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Show Me the coin used for the tax." So they brought Him a denarius.
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"Whose image and inscription is this?" He asked them.
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"Caesar's," they said to Him. Then He said to them, "Therefore, give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
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When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
23 The same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him:
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"Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.
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The same happened to the second also, and the third, and so to all seven.
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Then last of all the woman died.
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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her."
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Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God.
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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.
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Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God:
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I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob ? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
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And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.