Luke 20:19-34

¹⁹So the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour, for they knew that he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

²⁰Watching him carefully, they sent out spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might find fault with his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

²¹They asked him, saying, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and are not influenced by anyone's position, but you teach the truth about the way of God.

²²Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

²³But Jesus understood their craftiness, and said to them,

²⁴“Show me a denarius. Whose image and name is on it?” They said, “Caesar's.”

²⁵He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

²⁶They were not able to find fault with what he had said in front of the people, but marveling at his answer, they were silent.

²⁷When some of the Sadducees came to him, the ones who say that there is no resurrection,

²⁸they asked him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife, and being childless, the man should take the brother's wife, and have a child for his brother.

²⁹There were seven brothers and the first took a wife, and died childless,

³⁰and the second as well.

³¹The third took her, and likewise the seven also left no children, and died.

³²Afterward the woman also died.

³³In the resurrection then, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as their wife.”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage.