Matthew 22:26-40

New International Version

²⁶ The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. ²⁷ Finally, the woman died. ²⁸ Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

²⁹ Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures^(A) or the power of God. ³⁰ At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;^(B) they will be like the angels in heaven. ³¹ But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’^[a]?^(C) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

³³ When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.^(D)

The Greatest Commandment^(E)

³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,^(F) the Pharisees got together. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law,^(G) tested him with this question: ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{[b](H) 38} This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{[c](I) 40} All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”^(J)