24. asking, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.'
25. Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;
26. so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh.
27. Last of all, the woman died.
28. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."
29. But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
30. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
31. But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God:
32. 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
33. When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
34. But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.
35. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,
36. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"