The God of the Living

¹⁸ Next some Sadducees (who say that there will be no resurrection) came to him. They asked him a question: ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife but no child, then his brother should take his wife and raise up children for his brother.’^[a]

²⁰ “Now there were seven brothers. The first one took a wife and died without leaving children. ²¹ The second one married her and died, leaving no children. The third one did the same. ²² The seven left no children. Last of all, the woman also died. ²³ So when they rise in the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had her as a wife?”

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you are mistaken: that you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ In fact, when people rise from the dead, they do not marry, and they are not given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ But about the dead—that they are raised—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?^{[b] 27} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken.”