The Sadducees and the Resurrection

^18 (A)Then some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) *came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^(B)if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should ^[a]marry the wife and raise up a seed for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers; and the first ^[b]married a wife, and died leaving no ^[c]seed. ²¹ And the second one ^[d]married her, and died leaving behind no seed; and the third likewise; ²² and so ^[e]all seven left no seed. Last of all the woman died also. ²³ In the resurrection, ^[f]when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For ^[g]all seven ^[h]had married her.” ²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not ^[i]understand the Scriptures nor the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ But ^[j]regarding the fact that the dead are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, ^(C)in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘^(D)I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ^27 (E)He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”