14. When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
15. Should we pay, or should we not pay? ”But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”
16. So they brought one. “Whose image and inscription is this? ” He asked them.“Caesar’s,” they said.
17. Then Jesus told them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him.
18. Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and questioned Him:
19. “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.
20. There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring.
21. The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.
22. So the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too.
23. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her? ”
24. Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God?
25. For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.
26. Now concerning the dead being raised — haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
27. He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”
28. One of the scribes approached. When he heard them debating and saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked Him, “Which command is the most important of all? ”
29. “This is the most important,” Jesus answered:Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
30. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
31. “The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”