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20 So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.
21 And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.
22 Is it right for us to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?"
23 But he detected their trickery, and said to them,
24 "Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."
25 He said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"
26 So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.
27 Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,
28 "Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
29 Now there were seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died childless.
30 And the second married her,
31 and the third, and all the seven married her and died without leaving any child.
32 After ward the woman died too.
33 Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will the woman be? For all seven of them married her."
34 Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married,
35 but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.
36 For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.
37 But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
38 He is not the God of dead men but of living, for all men are alive to him."
39 Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!"
40 For they did not dare to ask him any more questions.