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Then some Sadducees arrived. These people claim that there is no resurrection. 

They asked Jesus this question: 

“Master, the law Moses told us, ‘If anyone dies, leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife and any child born to them will be regarded as the child of the deceased.’

 Now, there were seven brothers: the first married but died without children. 

The second married the woman, but also died childless. 

And then the third married her, and in the same way, all seven died without children.

Last of all, the woman died. 

On the day of the resurrection, to which of them will the woman be a wife? For all seven had her as a wife.”

And Jesus replied: 

“Taking a husband or a wife is proper for people of this world, 

but for those who are considered worthy of the world to come and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage.

Besides, they cannot die, for they are like angels. They are sons and daughters of God because they are born of the resurrection.

Yes, the dead will be raised, as Moses revealed at the burning bush when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

For God is a God of the living, not of the dead, for to him everyone is alive.” 

Some teachers of the law then agreed with Jesus: 

“Master, you have spoken well.” 

They didn’t dare ask him anything else.