Matthew 22:23-33

Legacy Standard Bible

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

^23 (A)On that day some ^(B)Sadducees (who say ^(C)there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and asked Him a question, ²⁴ saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘^(D)If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife and raise up a seed for his brother.’ ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no ^[a]seed, he left his wife to his brother; ²⁶ so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all, the woman died. ²⁸ In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

²⁹ But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, ^(E)not ^[b]understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither ^(F)marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ³¹ But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ³² ‘^(G)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.” ³³ And when the crowds heard this, ^(H)they were astonished at His teaching.