NAS - Matthew 22:23-46

Jesus Answers the Sadducees

²³On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him, ²⁴asking, "Teacher, Moses said, `IF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.' ²⁵"Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother; ²⁶so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. ²⁷"Last of all, the woman died. ²⁸"In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."

²⁹But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.³⁰"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.³¹"But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God:³²`I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND 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 astonished at His teaching.

³⁴But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. ³⁵One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, ³⁶"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" ³⁷And He said to him, " `YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'³⁸"This is the great and foremost commandment.³⁹"The second is like it, `YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'⁴⁰"On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

⁴¹Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: ⁴²"What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?"They *said to Him, "The son of David." ⁴³He *said to them, "Then how does David in the Spirit call Him `Lord,' saying,⁴⁴ `THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET"'? ⁴⁵"If David then calls Him `Lord,' how is He his son?"⁴⁶No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.