Twentieth_Century(i)
15 Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.
16 They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him: "Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of any one; for you pay no regard to a man's position.
17 Tell us, then, what you think. Are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?"
18 Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered: "Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
19 Show me the coin with which the tax is paid." And, when they had brought him a florin,
20 He asked: "Whose head and title are these?"
21 "The Emperor's," they answered: on which he said to them: "Then pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God."
22 They wondered at his answer, and left him alone and went away.
23 That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this:--
24 "Teacher, Moses said--'Should a man die without children, the man's brother shall become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.'
25 Now we had living among us seven brothers; of whom the eldest married and died, and, as he had no family, left his wife for his brother.
26 The same thing happened to the second and the third brothers, and indeed to all the seven.
27 The woman herself died last of all.
28 At the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be out of the seven, all of them having had her?"
29 "Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.
30 For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in Heaven.
31 As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God--
32 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men, but of living."
33 The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.