Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus
and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother
dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise
up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married,
and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the
same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the
resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had
married her.’
Jesus said to them, ‘Those who belong to this age marry and are given in
marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the
resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they
cannot die any more, because they are like angels and are children of God,
being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses
himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of
the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.’ Then some of
the scribes answered, ‘Teacher, you have spoken well.’ For they no longer dared
to ask him another question.
Reflection
• Do
I believe in resurrection through Jesus?
• How
do I see my relationship with God?