24. “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’
25. Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.
26. The second did the same, 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. Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.
30. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
31. Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
32. ‘I am the God of Abraham, 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 amazed at his teaching.
34. Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.
35. And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:
36. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”