Luke 20:24-45

²⁴“Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”

²⁵“The Emperor's,” they said; and Jesus replied, “Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”

²⁶They could not lay hold of this answer before the people; and, in their wonder at his reply, they held their tongues.

²⁷Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this —

²⁸“Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that — ‘Should a man's married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.’

²⁹Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.

³⁰The second and third brothers both took her as their wife;

³¹and so, too, did all seven — dying without children.

³²The woman herself was the last to die.

³³About the woman, then — at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?”

³⁴“The men and women of this world,” said Jesus, “marry and are given in marriage;

³⁵but, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married,

³⁶nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's children.

³⁷As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord — ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

³⁸Now he is not God of dead people, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.”

³⁹“Well said, teacher!” exclaimed some of the teachers of the Law,

⁴⁰for they did not venture to question him any further.

⁴¹But Jesus said to them, “How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David's son?

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

⁴³until I put your enemies as a stool for your feet.’

⁴⁴David, then, calls him ‘lord,’ so how is he David's son?”

⁴⁵While all the people were listening, Jesus said to the disciples,