³ Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?” ⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ ⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” ⁷ They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” ⁸ He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery.”^[a]

The Question about the Resurrection

²³ The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection;^[a] and they asked him a question, saying,

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels^[a] in heaven.

²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

³⁶ Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.