Matthew 22:22-46

22When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.

23The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

24saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

26Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.

27Last of all the woman died also.

28Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”

29Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

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

31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

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

33And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

34But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

35Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

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

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

38This is the first and great commandment.

39And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.”

43He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:

44‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?

45If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”

46And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.