Matthew 22:15-33

15Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap him by what he said.

16So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You don’t care what anyone thinks nor do you show partiality.

17Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

18Perceiving their malicious intent, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, hypocrites?

19Show me the coin used for the tax.” They brought him a denarius.

20“Whose image and inscription is this?” he asked them.

21“Caesar’s,” they said to him. Then he said to them, “Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

23That same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to him and questioned him:

24“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.

26The same thing happened to the second also, and the third, and so on to all seven.

27Last of all, the woman died.

28In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”

29Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

31Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God:

32I 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.”

33And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.