Luke 20:27-38 ▼

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.”