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Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying,

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

"There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

"The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

and so the seven together left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

"In the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For each of the seven had her as his wife."

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

"For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

"But regarding the fact that the dead rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'?

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

"He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.