Old/New Testament
Marriage and the resurrection
27 Some of the Sadducees came to Jesus to put their question. (The Sadducees deny that there is any resurrection.)
28 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies, leaving a widow but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.’ 29 Well, now: there were seven brothers; the eldest married a wife, and died without children. 30 The second 31 and the third married her, and then each of the seven, and they died without children. 32 Finally the woman died as well. 33 So, in the resurrection, whose wife will the woman be? The seven all had her as their wife.”
34 “The children of this age,” replied Jesus, “marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are counted worthy of a place in the age to come, and of the resurrection of the dead, don’t marry, and they are not given in marriage. 36 This is because they can no longer die; they are the equivalent of angels. They are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.
37 “But when it comes to the dead being raised, Moses too declares it, in the passage about the burning bush, where scripture describes the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38 God is God, not of the dead, but of the living. They are all alive to him.”
39 “That was well said, Teacher,” commented some of the scribes, 40 since they no longer dared ask him anything else.
David’s son and the widow’s mite
41 Jesus said to them, “How can people say that the Messiah is the son of David? 42 David himself says, in the book of Psalms,
The Lord says to the Lord of mine
sit here at my right hand;
43 until I place those foes of thine
right underneath thy feet.
44 “David, you see, calls him ‘Lord’; so how can he be his son?”
45 As all the people listened to him, he said to the disciples, 46 “Watch out for the scribes who like to go about in long robes, and enjoy being greeted in the market-place, sitting in the best seats in the synagogues, and taking the top table at dinners. 47 They devour widows’ houses, and make long prayers without meaning them. Their judgment will be all the more severe.”
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.