Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²³ The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him, ²⁴ saying, Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies having no children, the brother should marry the widow and raise up seed for his brother. ²⁵ There were with us seven brethren. The first married and died without issue, and left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Likewise the second and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ Last of all the woman died also. ²⁸ Now in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, You are deceived, and do not understand the scriptures, nor yet the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, but are as the angels in heaven. ³¹ As for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what is spoken to you by God, who says, ³² I am Abraham’s God, and Isaac’s God, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

³³ And when the people heard that, they were astonished at his teaching.