In that day, the Sadducees, who say there is to be no resurrection, approached him. And they questioned him,
saying: "Teacher, Moses said: If anyone will have died, having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and he shall raise up offspring to his brother.
Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first, having taken a wife, died. And having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother:
similarly with the second, and the third, even to the seventh.
And last of all, the woman also passed away.
In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her."
But Jesus responded to them by saying: "You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
For in the resurrection, they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage. Instead, they shall be like the Angels of God in heaven.
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken by God, saying to you:
'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
And when the crowds heard this, they wondered at his doctrine.
But the Pharisees, hearing that he had caused the Sadducees to be silent, came together as one.
And one of them, a doctor of the law, questioned him, to test him:
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
Jesus said to him: " 'You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the greatest and first commandment.
But the second is similar to it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets."
Then, when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them,
saying: "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."
He said to them: "Then how can David, in the Spirit, call him Lord, saying:
'The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?'
So then, if David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"
And no one was able to respond to him a word. And neither did anyone dare, from that day forward, to question him.
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