1440630 Sadducees question the resurrection – Matthew 22:23-33, Mark 12:18-27, Luke 20:27-40, April A.D. 29 Jerusalem
On that day, there came to him some of the Sadducees (those who deny that there is a resurrection and say that there is no resurrection). And they asked him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us and said that, ‘If a man dies or a man’s brother dies having a wife and leaves a wife behind him, and he leaves having no children, that his brother shall take and marry his wife, and raise up seed (offspring – children) for his brother.’ Now therefore, there were seven brothers with us. The first took and married a wife and died childless. And dying, having left no seed and offspring, he left his wife to his brother. In like manner the second also took her as wife and he died childless, leaving no children behind him. And the third likewise to the seventh took her and all left no children and died. And after the last of them all, the woman also died. In the resurrection therefore, when they rise, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all seven had her as a wife.”
But Jesus answered and said to them, “Is not this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. But for those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and in the resurrection, when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, that they are raised; have you not read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, that which was spoken to you by God and how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ Even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him. You are therefore badly mistaken.” And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. And some of the scribes answered and said, “Teacher, you speak well.” For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.
