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29 Jesus answered, "You're off base on two counts: You don't know your Bibles, and you don't know how God works.
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Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
30 At the resurrection we're beyond marriage. As with the angels, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God.
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At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
31 And regarding your speculation on whether the dead are raised or not, don't you read your Bibles? The grammar is clear: God says,
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But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you,
32 'I am - not was - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.' The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living."
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‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed.
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When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
34 When the Pharisees heard how he had bested the Sadducees, they gathered their forces for an assault.
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Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up:
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One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36 "Teacher, which command in God's Law is the most important?"
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“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.'
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Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the most important, the first on any list.
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.'
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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