The Dead Come Back to Life^(A)

¹⁸ Some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Yeshua. They asked him, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother should marry his widow and have children for his brother.’ ²⁰ There were seven brothers. The first got married and died without having children. ²¹ The second married her and died without having children. So did the third. ²² None of the seven brothers had any children. Last of all, the woman died. ²³ When the dead come back to life, whose wife will she be? The seven brothers had married her.”

²⁴ Yeshua said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power? ²⁵ When the dead come back to life, they don’t marry. Rather, they are like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ Haven’t you read in the book of Moses that the dead come back to life? It’s in the passage about the bush, where God said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ ²⁷ He’s not the God of the dead but of the living. You’re badly mistaken!”

The Dead Come Back to Life^(A)

²⁷ Some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Yeshua. They asked him, ²⁸ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry his widow and have children for his brother.’ ²⁹ There were seven brothers. The first got married and died without having children. ³⁰ Then the second brother married the widow, ³¹ and so did the third. In the same way all seven brothers married the widow, died, and left no children. ³² Finally, the woman died. ³³ Now, when the dead come back to life, whose wife will she be? The seven brothers had married her.”

³⁴ Yeshua said to them, “In this world people get married. ³⁵ But people who are considered worthy to come back to life and live in the next world will neither marry ³⁶ nor die anymore. They are the same as the angels. They are God’s children who have come back to life.

³⁷ “Even Moses showed in the passage about the bush that the dead come back to life. He says that the Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ³⁸ He’s not the God of the dead but of the living. In God’s sight all people are living.”

³⁹ Some experts in Moses’ Teachings responded, “Teacher, that was well said.” ⁴⁰ From that time on, no one dared to ask him another question.