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Matthew 22:30

“For

in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.”
Matthew 22:30


Context / meaning

Matthew 22 [23.] On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring[a] for his brother.’ Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring[b] left his wife to his brother. In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

Matthew 22 [29.] But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’[c] God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Matthew 22 [33.] When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

Footnotes:

a. Matthew 22:24 or, seed.
b. Matthew 22:25 or, seed.
c. Matthew 22:32 Exodus 3:6.


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