18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children, 21 and the second married the widow and died, leaving no children, and the third likewise; 22 none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. 23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.” 24 Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is God not of the dead but of the living; you are quite wrong.”
Prayer Focus: From taxes to resurrection, we are getting the big theological issues in this chapter. The whole scenario proposed by the Sadducees is a false narrative as they don’t believe in the resurrection and are twisting a law meant to protect vulnerable widows by turning it into a puzzle to trap Jesus. Jesus does not fall for the trap. The key is not whose wife the woman would be in the resurrection. The point is how do we care for those entrusted to our care today. God is the God of the living! Pray that you might work for the life and well-being of all who find themselves vulnerable and oppressed today.
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