Matthew 22:23-33

Tree of Life Version

Religious Leaders Ask a Tricky Question

²³ On that day, Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Yeshua and questioned Him, saying, ²⁴ “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his widow and father children for his brother.’ ^{[a] 25} Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died; and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ In the same way also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ Last of all, the woman died. ²⁸ So in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

²⁹ But answering, Yeshua said to them, “You’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!” ^{[b] 33} When the crowds heard this, they were astounded at His teaching.