Luke 20:24-45

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.

³⁵But those who are regarded as worthy in that age to receive the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

³⁶Neither can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

³⁷But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the place concerning the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

³⁸Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because all live to him.”

³⁹Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have answered well.”

⁴⁰For they did not dare ask him any more questions.

⁴¹Jesus said to them, “How do they say that the Christ is David's son?

⁴²For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

⁴³until I make your enemies your footstool.'

⁴⁴David therefore calls the Christ 'Lord', so how is he David's son?”

⁴⁵In the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,