Luke 20:23-47 ▼

23 And He, having perceived their craftiness, said to them, “Why do you tempt Me?

24 Show Me a denarius; of whom does it have an image and inscription?” And they answering said, “Of Caesar”:

25 and He said to them, “Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God”;

26 and they were not able to take hold on His saying before the people, and having wondered at His answer, they were silent.

27 And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a resurrection, having come near, questioned Him,

28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us if anyone’s brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless—that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

29 There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

31 and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven—they left no children, and they died;

32 and last of all the woman also died:

33 in the resurrection, then, of which of them does she become wife? For the seven had her as wife.”

34 And Jesus answering said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

35 but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the resurrection that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

36 for neither are they able to die anymore—for they are like messengers—and they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

37 And that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the Bush, since he calls the LORD the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

38 and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.”

39 And certain of the scribes answering said, “Teacher, You said well”;

40 and they no longer dared question Him anything.

41 And He said to them, “How do they say the Christ is [the] son of David,

42 and David himself says in [the] Scroll of Psalms, The LORD said to my Lord, || Sit on My right hand,

43 Until I will make Your enemies Your footstool;

44 David, then, calls Him Lord, and how is He his son?”

45 And all the people hearing, He said to His disciples,

46 “Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are cherishing salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches at the banquets,

47 who devour the houses of the widows, and make long prayers for a pretense, these will receive more abundant judgment.”