Luke 20:24-45

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.

³⁵“But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and the resurrection from the dead don't marry or are given in marriage.

³⁶They can't die any longer; they're like the angels and are children of God since they're children of the resurrection.

³⁷But on the question of whether the dead are raised, even Moses proved this when he wrote about the burning bush, when he calls the Lord, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

³⁸He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him they all are alive.”

³⁹Some of the religious teachers responded, “That was a good answer, Teacher.”

⁴⁰After this no one dared to ask him any more questions.

⁴¹Then Jesus asked them, “Why is it said that Christ is the son of David?

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

⁴³until I make all your enemies a footstool for your feet.’

⁴⁴David calls him ‘Lord,’ so how can he be David's son?”

⁴⁵While everyone was paying attention, he said to his disciples,