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AndJesusansweringsaid unto them,Render to Caesar the things that areCaesar's,and to God the things that areGod's.And they marvelledathim.
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Thencomeuntohim the Sadducees,whichsay there isnoresurrection;and they askedhim,saying,
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Master,Moseswrote unto us,Ifaman'sbrotherdie, andleave his wife behind him, andleavenochildren,thathisbrother should takehiswife,and raise upseed unto hisbrother.
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Now there weresevenbrethren:and the firsttook a wife,anddyingleftnoseed.
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And the secondtookher,anddied*, neitherlefthe any seed:and the thirdlikewise.
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And the sevenhadher,andleftnoseed:last of all the womandiedalso.
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In the resurrectiontherefore,when they shall rise, whosewife shall she be of them?for the sevenhadher to wife.
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AndJesusansweringsaid unto them, Do yenottherefore*err, because ye knownot the scriptures,neither the power of God?
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Forwhen they shall risefrom the dead, they neithermarry, nor are given in marriage; butareas the angelswhich are inheaven.
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And as touching the dead,that they rise: have yenotreadin the book of Moses,howin the bushGodspake unto him,saying, I am the God of Abraham,and the God of Isaac,and the God of Jacob?
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He isnot the God of the dead,but the God of the living: yethereforedogreatlyerr.