MNT(i)
20 So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
21 So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.
22 "Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?"
23 But he perceived their knavery and answered.
24 "Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.
25 "Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."
26 So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.
27 Next came some of the Sadducees who deny that there is resurrection, and they asked him.
28 "Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.
29 "Now there were seven brothers. the first took a wife and died childless,
30 "and the second and third took her,
31 "and likewise all the seven, but left no children when they died.
32 "Last of all the woman died too.
33 "In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For they all seven had her as wife."
34 "People in this world marry and are given in marriage," said Jesus,
35 "but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
36 "For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.
37 "But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
38 "Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for to him all are alive.'
39 Then some of the Scribes said, "Teacher, that was nobly said,"
40 for they no longer dared to ask him any questions.