Matthew 22:23-33

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A Question about the Resurrection^(A)

²³ That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus^[a] and asked him, ²⁴ “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.’^{[b] 25} Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother. ²⁶ The same thing happened with the second brother, and then the third, and finally with the rest of the brothers.^{[c] 27} Finally, the woman died, too. ²⁸ Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married^[d] her?”

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power, ³⁰ because in the resurrection, people^[e] neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels^[f] in heaven. ³¹ As for the resurrection from the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God when he said, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?^[g] He^[h] is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

³³ When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.