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Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her."
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Jesus answered them, "The men and women of this age marry,
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but the men and women who are worthy to rise from death and live in the age to come will not then marry.
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They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death.
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And Moses clearly proves that the dead are raised to life. In the passage about the burning bush he speaks of the Lord as "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
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He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive."
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Some of the teachers of the Law spoke up, "A good answer, Teacher!"
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For they did not dare ask him any more questions.
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Jesus asked them, "How can it be said that the Messiah will be the descendant of David?
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For David himself says in the book of Psalms,
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until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.'