Matthew 22:25-46 ▼

25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

26 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

27 After them all, the woman died.

28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.|

29 But Jesus answered them, |You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.

31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

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

33 When the crowds heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.

35 One of them, a Law scholar, asked him a question, testing him.

36 |Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?|

37 He said to him, |'You are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

38 This is the great and first commandment.

39 A second likewise is this, 'You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'

40 The whole Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.|

41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

42 saying, |What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?| They said to him, |Of David.|

43 He said to them, |How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet'?

45 |If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?|

46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did anyone dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.