Luke 20:27-40

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Sadducees Question Jesus About The Resurrection of a Wife With Seven Husbands

²⁷ And having come to Him, some of the Sadducees— the ones denying that there is a resurrection— questioned Him, ²⁸ saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us [in Deut 25:5] that if a brother of someone dies having a wife, and this^[a] one is childless, that his brother should take the wife and raise-up-from her a seed^[b] for his brother. ²⁹ So there were seven brothers. And the first, having taken a wife, died childless. ³⁰ And the second. ³¹ And the third took her. And similarly, the seven also did not leave-behind children, and died. ³² Last, the woman also died. ³³ The woman, therefore, at the resurrection— of which of them does she become the wife? For the seven had her as wife”. ³⁴ And Jesus said to them, “The sons of ^[c] this age marry and are given-in-marriage. ³⁵ But the ones having been considered-worthy to attain^[d] that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor are they given-in-marriage. ³⁶ For they are not even still able to die, for they are angel-like^[e]. And they are sons^[f] of God, being sons of ^[g] the resurrection. ³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed^[h] at the bush [in Ex 3:16]— when he calls the Lord the ‘God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob’. ³⁸ Now He is not God of dead ones, but of living ones. For to Him all are alive”. ³⁹ And having responded, some of the scribes said, “Teacher, You spoke well”. ⁴⁰ For they were no longer daring to ask Him anything.