Luke 20:27-40

27Then some of the Sadducees came to see Jesus. The Sadducees do not believe that anyone becomes alive again after they die.

28They wanted to ask Jesus a question. ‘Teacher,’ they said to him, ‘Moses wrote this in the Bible for us: “A man may die and leave a wife but no children. Then that man's brother must marry the woman. Then their children will be called the children of the brother who died.”

29But once there were seven brothers. The oldest brother married a woman. Then he died before they had any children.

30So the second brother married this woman. But he also died without children.

31Then the third brother married the woman. The same thing happened to all seven brothers. They all died but they had no children.

32After all this, the woman also died.

33You teach that one day dead people will become alive again. So, on that day, whose wife will the woman be? She had married all seven of those brothers.’

34Jesus answered them, ‘Men and women who are alive on earth are the ones who get married.

35But God has chosen some people to live again with him. He will raise them up after they have died. Those people will not marry. They will not have husbands or wives,

36and they cannot die any more. This is because they will live as the angels live in heaven. They are children of God. He has made them alive again to live with him.

37It is true that God makes dead people become alive again. Moses showed us this in his report about the bush in the wilderness. He told us that our Lord God is the God of Abraham. He is the God of Isaac. And he is the God of Jacob.

38But God is not the God of people who are dead. He is the God of people who are alive. For God, all people continue to be alive.’

39Some of the teachers of God's Law agreed with Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘that was a very good answer.’

40After that, they were all afraid to ask Jesus any more questions.