⁴ “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’^[a]”

²³ “At last!” the man exclaimed.

² He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

¹⁵ Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his.^[a] And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.

²⁶ Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

³¹ “But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead—haven’t you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said,^[a]

³ Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

²⁶ “But now, as to whether the dead will be raised—haven’t you ever read about this in the writings of Moses, in the story of the burning bush? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses,^[a] ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’^[b]