NARRATOR: Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came forward to Jesus to pose this problem.
SADDUCEE: Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife and no child, the brother shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Suppose there were seven brothers. The first one married and died childless, so the second brother married the widow, then the third, and so on. All seven died without leaving her any children. Finally the widow herself died. At the resurrection, whose wife will she be? Remember, seven married her.
JESUS 1: Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage, but those judged worthy of a place in the age to come and of resurrection from the dead do not. They cannot die anymore because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
JESUS 2: Moses in the passage about the bush showed that the dead rise again when he called Yahweh the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not God of the dead but of the living. All are alive to God.
Luke 20.27-38