Matthew 22:22-46

22Now when they heard this they were stunned, and they left him and went away.

23The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

24“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

26The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

27Last of all, the woman died.

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

29Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, 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 as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”

33When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

34Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

35And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

36“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

37Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38This is the first and greatest commandment.

39The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

40All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question:

42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.”

43He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying,

44‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

45If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”

46No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.