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Once there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died. Since he had no children, his brother married the widow.
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Then the second brother also died. The same thing happened to the third brother and all the other brothers.
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Finally, the woman died.
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Since all seven men had married her, when people rise from the dead, whose wife will she be?"
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Jesus answered, "You don't understand, because you don't know what the Scriptures say, and you don't know about the power of God.
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When people rise from the dead, they will not marry, nor will they be given to someone to marry. They will be like the angels in heaven.
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Surely you have read what God said to you about rising from the dead.
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God said, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' God is the God of the living, not the dead."
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When the people heard this, they were amazed at Jesus' teaching.
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When the Pharisees learned that the Sadducees could not argue with Jesus' answers to them, the Pharisees met together.
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One Pharisee, who was an expert on the law of Moses, asked Jesus this question to test him: