Luke 20:19-34

¹⁹Immediately the religious teachers and the chief priests wanted to arrest him because they realized that the story Jesus told was aimed at them, but they were afraid of what the people would do.

²⁰Watching for an opportunity they sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They tried to catch Jesus out in something he said so they could hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.

²¹They said, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is good and right, and that you're not swayed by the opinions of others. You truly teach the way of God.

²²So should we pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

²³But Jesus saw through their trickery, and said to them,

²⁴“Show me a coin—a denarius. Whose image and inscription is on it?” “Caesar's,” they answered.

²⁵“Then give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give back to God what belongs to God,” he told them.

²⁶They weren't able to trap him by what he told the people. They were stunned at his reply, and fell silent.

²⁷Then some of the Sadducees, who deny the resurrection, came to Jesus with this question:

²⁸“Teacher,” they began, “Moses gave us a law that if a married man dies leaving a wife without children, then his brother should marry the widow and have children for his dead brother.

²⁹Once there were seven brothers. The first had a wife, and died without having children.

³⁰The second

³¹and then the third brother also married her. In the end all seven brothers married her, and then died without having children.

³²Finally the wife died too.

³³Now whose wife will she be in the resurrection, since all seven brothers had married her?”

³⁴“Here in this age people marry and are given in marriage,” Jesus explained.