The Sadducees and the Resurrection
27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him:
27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him:
28 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.[Dt 25:5]
29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.
30 Also the second
31 and the third took her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children.
32 Finally, the woman died too.
33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”
34 Jesus told them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.
35 But those who are counted worthy to take part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36 For they can no longer die, because they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection.
37 Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.[Ex 3:6,15]
38 He is not the God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to him.”
Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
"It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them.
Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happy state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive, Genesis 15:1. He never did that for them in this world, which answered the full extent of his undertaking; therefore there must be another life, in which he will do that for them, which will completely fulfill the promise."
Genesis 15:1 The Abrahamic Covenant
After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield;
your reward will be very great.
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