Luke 20:24-45

²⁴Shew me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it? And answering they said, Caesar's.

²⁵And he said to them, Pay therefore what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.

²⁶And they were not able to take hold of him in his expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer, they were silent.

²⁷And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, coming up to him,

²⁸demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.

²⁹There were then seven brethren: and the first, having taken a wife, died childless;

³⁰and the second took the woman, and he died childless;

³¹and the third took her: and in like manner also the seven left no children and died;

³²and last of all the woman also died.

³³In the resurrection therefore of which of them does she become wife, for the seven had her as wife?

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

³⁵but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

³⁶for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

³⁷But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in the section of the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;

³⁸but he is not God of the dead but of the living; for all live for him.

³⁹And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well spoken.

⁴⁰For they did not dare any more to ask him anything.

⁴¹And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is David's son,

⁴²and David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand

⁴³until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet?

⁴⁴David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?

⁴⁵And, as all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,