24“Show me a Roman coin. Then tell me whose picture is on it. And tell me whose name is on it.” They showed him a coin and said, “It has the picture and name of Caesar, the head of the Roman government.”
25He said to them, “In that case, give to the government MTY what they require, and give to God what he requires.”
26While the people were there, the spies were unable to find fault with him for what he said. And they were amazed at his answer. So they said nothing.
27Some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are a Jewish sect who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die.
28They wanted to ask Jesus a question in order to discredit the idea that dead people will live again. One of them said to Jesus, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us Jews about situations where a man who has a wife but no children. If the man dies, his brother should marry the dead man's widow so that she can have a child by him. People will consider that the child is the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.
29Well, there were seven brothers in one family. The oldest one married, but he and his wife did not bear any children. Later he died.
30The second brother followed this law and married the widow, but the same thing happened to him.
31Then the third brother married her, but the same thing happened again. All seven brothers, one by one, married that woman, but they had no children, and one by one they died.
32Afterwards, the woman died, too.
33Therefore, if it is true that there will be a time when dead people will become alive again, whose wife do you think that woman will be then? ◄ Keep in mind that she was married to all seven brothers!/It will be impossible to decide because she was married to all seven brothers!► RHQ”
34Jesus replied to them, “Men who live here in this world take wives, or are given wives by their parents {their parents choose wives for them}.
35But the men whom God considers worthy of being in heaven after they become alive again will not be married.
36You need to know also that they cannot die anymore, because they will be immortal SIM like angels. The fact that God has caused them to be alive again will show that they are God's children.
37But as for people becoming alive again after they die, Moses wrote something about that. In the place where he wrote about the burning bush, he mentions the Lord as being the God whom Abraham worships and the God whom Isaac worships and the God whom Jacob worships.
38It is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob died long before Moses lived, but God said that they were still worshipping him, so we(inc) know their spirits were still alive! All people whose spirits are alive again after they die continue to live to honor God!”
39Some of the men who taught the Jewish laws replied, “Teacher, you (sg) have answered very well!”
40After that, they no longer dared to ask him any more questions like that to try to trap him.
41Then Jesus said to them, “I will show you (OR, prove to you) that people are wrong who say that the Messiah is merely a descendant of King David! RHQ
42Because David himself wrote about the Messiah in the book of Psalms, God said to my Lord, Sit here beside me on my right, where I will highly honor you(sg) MTY.
43Sit here while I completely defeat your enemies.
44King David calls the Messiah ‘ my Lord’! So ◄ the Messiah cannot be just someone descended from King David!/how can the Messiah be just someone descended from King David?► RHQ What I just said proves that he is much greater than David, isn't that right?”
45While all the other people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,
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Luke 20:24-45