August 22, 2021

Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

²³ The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, ²⁴ saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ So too the second and third, down to the seventh. ²⁷ After them all, the woman died. ²⁸ In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”

²⁹ But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.” ³³ And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

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Cross references

Matthew 22:23 : ver. 34; ch. 3:7; 16:1; Acts 4:1; 5:17; 23:6 Matthew 22:23 : Acts 23:8; [Acts 4:2] Matthew 22:24 : [Deut. 25:5] Matthew 22:29 : John 20:9 Matthew 22:29 : 1 Cor. 6:14 Matthew 22:30 : ch. 24:38; Luke 17:27 Matthew 22:30 : ch. 24:38; Luke 17:27 Matthew 22:31 : See ch. 21:16 Matthew 22:32 : Acts 7:32; Cited from Ex. 3:6 Matthew 22:33 : See ch. 7:28

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