¹⁸ Marriage and the Resurrection.^[a] Then some Sadducees, who assert that there is no resurrection, approached him and posed this question, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote down for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall take his brother’s wife and raise up children for his brother. ²⁰ Now there were seven brothers. The first brother took a wife and died, leaving no children. ²¹ The second brother married the widow and died, leaving no children. The same was true of the third brother. ²² None of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman herself died. ²³ Now at the resurrection, when they rise up, whose wife will she be, inasmuch as all seven had her?”

²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason you are in error—namely, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They are like angels in heaven.

²⁶ “And in regard to the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God said to him: ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ²⁷ He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are very badly mistaken.”