^{27 Ref} And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,

^{28 Ref} saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

^{29 Ref} `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

³⁰ and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

³¹ and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;

^{32 Ref} and last of all died also the woman:

^{33 Ref} in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'

^{34 Ref} And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

^{35 Ref} but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

^{36 Ref} for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

^{37 Ref} `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

^{38 Ref} and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

^{39 Ref} And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'

^{40 Ref} and no more durst they question him anything.