¹⁸ Then the Sadducees came to Him (who say there is no resurrection). And they asked Him, saying,

¹⁹ “Master, Moses wrote to us, ‘If any man’s brother dies and leaves his wife, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.’

²⁰ “There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he died, he left no heir.

²¹ “Then the second took her and died, leaving no heir, and the third likewise.

²² “So these seven had her and left no heir. Last of all the wife died also.

²³ “In the resurrection then, when they shall rise again, whose wife shall she be? For seven had her as their wife.”

²⁴ Then Jesus answered, and said to them, “Are you not therefore deceived, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

²⁵ “For when they shall rise again from the dead, neither men nor wives marry, but are as the angels which are in Heaven.

²⁶ “And as for the dead, they shall rise again. Have you not read in the book of Moses how, in the bush, God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’

²⁷ “God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly deceived.”