18. Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and put this question to him,
19. saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
20. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.
21. So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise.
22. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died.
23. At the resurrection [when they arise] whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.”
24. Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God?
25. When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.
26. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, [the] God of Isaac, and [the] God of Jacob’?
27. He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”
28. One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”
29. Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!
30. You shall 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 this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
32. The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’