Jesus Debates the Sadducees on the Resurrection

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On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,

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saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

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Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;

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in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

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And after them all, the woman died.

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In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

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But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

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But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

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I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

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And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.