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Try as they might, they couldn't trap him into saying anything incriminating. His answer caught them off guard and left them speechless.
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Some Sadducees came up. This is the Jewish party that denies any possibility of resurrection. They asked,
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"Teacher, Moses wrote us that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to take the widow to wife and get her with child.
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Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless.
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The second married her and died,
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then the third, and eventually all seven had their turn, but no child.
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After all that, the wife died.
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That wife, now - in the resurrection whose wife is she? All seven married her."
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Jesus said, "Marriage is a major preoccupation here,
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but not there. Those who are included in the resurrection of the dead will no longer be concerned with marriage
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nor, of course, with death. They will have better things to think about, if you can believe it. All ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God.