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John 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection,
came to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote
for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no
children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up
children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the
first married, and died childless; then the second and the
third married her, and so in the same way all seven died
childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection,
therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had
married her.’
Jesus said to them, ‘Those who belong to this age marry
and are given in marriage; but those who are considered
worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from
the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed
they cannot die any more, because they are like angels and
are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And
the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in
the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now
he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all
of them are alive.’ Then some of the scribes answered,
‘Teacher, you have spoken well.’ For they no longer dared to
ask him another question.
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