Matthew 22:24-46 ▼

24 "Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

25 Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.

26 So also did the second and the third, down to the seventh,

27 till the woman also died, after surviving them all.

28 At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

29 The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.

30 For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

31 But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,

32 I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead, but of living men."

33 All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.

34 Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,

35 and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,

36 "Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?"

37 "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'

38 This is the greatest and foremost Commandment.

39 And the second is similar to it: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'

40 The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

41 While the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus put a question to them.

42 "What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied.

43 "How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says,

44 "'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?

45 "If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

46 No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him.