New Testament in a Year
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.
The Greatest Commandment(B)
34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus[i] had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place. 35 One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking, 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus[j] told him, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[k] 38 This is the greatest and most important[l] commandment. 39 The second is exactly like it: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’[m] 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”
A Question about David’s Son(C)
41 While the Pharisees were still[n] gathered, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah?[o] Whose son is he?”
They told him, “David’s.”
43 He asked them, “Then how can David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord’ when he says,
44 ‘The Lord[p] told my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet.”’?[q]
45 If David calls him ‘Lord’, how can he be his son?”
46 No one could answer him at all,[r] and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.
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