Twentieth_Century(i)
27 Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this--
28 "Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that-- 'Should a man's married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.'
29 Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.
30 The second and third brothers both took her as their wife;
31 And so, too, did all seven--dying without children.
32 The woman herself was the last to die.
33 About the woman, then--at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?"
34 "The men and women of this world," said Jesus, "marry and are given in marriage;
35 But, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married,
36 Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.
37 As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord--'The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
38 Now he is not God of dead men, but of living. For in his sight all are alive."
39 "Well said, Teacher!" exclaimed some of the Teachers of the Law,
40 For they did not venture to question him any further.