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Luke 20:20-34 English Standard Version (ESV)

20. So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

21. So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.

22. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”

23. But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,

24. “Show me a denarius.Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

25. He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

26. And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

27. There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,

28. and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

29. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.

30. And the second

31. and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.

32. Afterward the woman also died.

33. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

34. And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,