Luke 20:20-47

20They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so that they could catch him in what he said, to hand him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

21They questioned him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and you don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God.

22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

23But detecting their craftiness, he said to them,

24“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?” “Caesar’s,” they said.

25“Well then,” he told them, “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

26They were not able to catch him in what he said in public, and being amazed at his answer, they became silent.

27Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him:

28“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

29Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

30Also the second

31and the third took her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children.

32Finally, the woman died too.

33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

34Jesus told them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.

35But those who are counted worthy to take part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

36For they can no longer die, because they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.

37Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

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

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

40And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

41Then he said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the son of David?

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

43until I make your enemies your footstool.’

44David calls him ‘Lord.’ How, then, can he be his son?”

45While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

46“Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

47They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”