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Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.
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So also did the second and the third, down to the seventh,
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till the woman also died, after surviving them all.
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At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."
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The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
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For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.
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But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,
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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 dead, but of living men."
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All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.
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Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,
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and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,