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Matthew 22:28

28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

Matthew 22:28 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
English Standard Version (ESV)
28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her."
New Living Translation (NLT)
28 So tell us, whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For all seven were married to her.”
The Message Bible (MSG)
28 Now here's our question: At the resurrection, whose wife is she? She was a wife to each of them."
American Standard Version (ASV)
28 In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
28 Now, when the dead come back to life, whose wife will she be? All seven brothers had been married to her."
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her."
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
28 Now then, when the dead rise, whose wife will she be? All seven of them were married to her."

Matthew 22:28 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 22:28

Therefore in the resurrection
As asserted by the Pharisees and by Christ, supposing that there will be such a thing, though not granting it; for these men denied it, wherefore the Ethiopic version reads it hypothetically, "if therefore the dead will be raised"; upon such a supposition, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her,
or were married to her. By putting this question, they thought to have got some advantage against Christ, and in favour of their notion; they hoped, either that he would give into their way of thinking, and relinquish the doctrine of the resurrection upon this, and join with them against the Pharisees, and so there would be no need of an answer to the question; or they judged, that if he returned an answer, it would be either that he did not know whose wife she should be, and then they would traduce him among the common people, as weak and ignorant; or should he say, that she would be the wife of one of them only, naming which of them, or of them all, or of none of them, they fancied that such absurd consequences would follow on each of these, as would expose the doctrine of the resurrection to ridicule and contempt; but they missed their aim, and were sadly disappointed by Christ's answer and reasonings which follow.

Matthew 22:28 In-Context

26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
27 Finally, the woman died.
28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
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