Event 8 – A Skeptical Question about the Resurrection

Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40

• Tuesday

^M That same day ^L some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. ^M Now 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. ^K The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the ^M third brother, right on down to the seventh. ^K In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

^K Jesus replied, “Are you in error because you do not know the Scriptures of the power of God? ^L “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.”

^K “Now about the dead rising – have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how ^L even Moses showed that the dead rise, for ^K God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but ^L of the living, for to him all are alive. ^K You are badly mistaken!

^M When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. ^L Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.