Luke 20:27-47 ▼

27 And some of the Sadducees, the ones denying there is a resurrection, having come, questioned Him,

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

29 Therefore there were seven brothers. And the first, having taken a wife, died childless;

30 and the second

31 and the third took her; and likewise also the seven did not leave behind children and died.

32 Finally the woman also died.

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

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

35 But those having been considered worthy to obtain that which is to the age and the resurrection that is out from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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

37 But that the dead are raised even Moses showed at the bush, as he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’

38 Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”

39 And answering, some of the scribes said, “Teacher, You spoke well!”

40 For no longer did they dare to question Him anything.

41 And He said to them, “How do they say the Christ is Son of David?

42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

43 until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”’

44 David therefore calls Him ‘Lord,’ and how is He his son?”

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

46 “Beware of the scribes, who are wanting to walk in long robes, and loving greetings in the marketplaces and first seats in the synagogues and first places at the suppers,

47 who devour the houses of widows and pray at great length as a pretext. These will receive more abundant judgment.”