JMNT(i)
18 Now progressively approaching Him are [some] Sadducees – folks who normally say that there is to be no resurrection – and they began asking (or: questioning) Him, saying,
19 "O teacher, Moses wrote (or: writes) to us that, 'If anyone's brother should die, and should leave-down-behind a widow (or: wife) and yet should not leave a child remaining, that his brother should receive the widow and take her as a wife and then should cause a seed (= offspring; a posterity) to rise up out [of their union] for (or: to) his brother.' [Deut. 25:5-6]
20 "There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and, upon dying, leaves no seed (offspring).
21 "Next the second one took (or: received) her and then he died, leaving-down no seed, and the third similarly.
22 "So the seven also received (took; got) her and yet left behind no seed. Last of them all, the woman also died.
23 "In the resurrection, then, whenever they may be rising (or: standing) up, of which of them will she continue being a wife – for the seven had (or: possessed) her as a wife?"
24 Jesus affirmed to them, "Are you folks not, therefore (for this reason), constantly deceived and led astray, having not seen, perceived, thus not knowing or being acquainted with the Scriptures – nor yet God's power (or: the ability of God)?
25 "For whenever they can be standing up again (or: should be rising up) from out of the midst of dead ones, men neither continue marrying (taking wives), nor [are women] continuing being given in marriage, but to the contrary, they continue being (or: constantly exist being), as it were, agents – within the atmospheres (or: like messengers in the midst of the heavens; or: as folks with the message, centered in the skies)! [comment: this may be foreshadowing the new arrangement where women are no longer “given” in marriage, but are equal, everyone being God’s agents]
26 "But concerning (or: about) the dead folks – that they are continually (or: constantly; habitually; progressively; repeatedly) being aroused and raised up – did (or: do) you folks not read within the scroll of Moses, at the thornbush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham, as well as Isaac's God and Jacob's God'? [Ex. 3:6]
27 "He is not a God of dead folks, but to the contrary, of continuously living ones. You men are continuing much deceived, habitually wandering astray (= missing the point)."