15. Should we pay, or shouldn’t we?” But Yeshua saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius so I may see it.”
16. They brought one. And He said to them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they said to Him.
17. Then Yeshua said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were completely amazed at Him.
18. Then Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came and began questioning Yeshua, saying,
19. “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, then his brother should take the widow and father children for his brother.’
20. There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and, when he died, left no offspring.
21. And the second took her and died, leaving no offspring, and the third likewise.
22. Now the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died, too.
23. In the resurrection, when they rise up, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”
24. Yeshua said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God?
25. For when they rise up from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26. But concerning the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses about the burning bush? How God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
27. He’s not the God of the dead, but of the living. You have gone far astray!”
28. One of the Torah scholars came and heard them debating. Seeing that Yeshua had answered them well, he asked Him, “Which commandment is first of all?”
29. Yeshua answered, “The first is, ‘Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
30. And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and 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.”