Matthew 22:23-40

Listen to Matthew 22:23-40

23 The same day ¹Sadducees came to him, ²who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,

24 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, ³'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.'

25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.

26 So too the second and third, down to the seventh.

27 After them all, the woman died.

28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her."

29 But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, ⁴because you know neither the Scriptures nor ⁵the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither ⁶marry nor ⁷are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, ⁸have you not read what was said to you by God:

32 ⁹'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."

33 And when the crowd heard it, ¹⁰they were astonished at his teaching.

34 ¹¹But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced ¹²the Sadducees, they gathered together.

35 ¹³And one of them, ¹⁴a lawyer, asked him a question ¹⁵to test him.

36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"

37 And he said to him, ¹⁶"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

38 This is the great and first commandment.

39 And ¹⁷a second is like it: ¹⁸You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

40 ¹⁹On these two commandments depend ²⁰all the Law and the Prophets."

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