Luke 20:29-47 ▼

29 Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.

30 The second and the third also took her;

31 and all seven, having done the same, left no children when they died.

32 Finally the woman also died.

33 The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her."

34 "The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

35 But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

36 For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

37 But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

38 He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

39 Then some of the Scribes replied, "Rabbi, you have spoken well."

40 From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.

41 But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?

42 Why, David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand

43 Until I have made thy foes a footstool under they feet.'

44 "David himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?"

45 Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to the disciples,

46 "Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

47 who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."