Matthew 22:27-29

The Voice

²⁷Eventually the wife died. ²⁸So now, Teacher, whose wife will she be at the resurrection? Will she have seven husbands, since they were each married to her?

According to Deuteronomy 25:5–6, a family member is supposed to marry a relative’s widow to carry on the deceased’s family name. Each man in this story dies, having fathered no children; that poor widow keeps marrying these brothers, and they keep dying. So in heaven, who is the husband?

Jesus: ²⁹You know neither God’s Scriptures nor God’s power—and so your assumptions are all wrong.

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