12 18 Next Sadducees came to him. (It is they who say that there is no resurrection.) Their question was this: 12 19 'Master, Moses laid it down for us that if there are brothers, and one dies leaving a wife but no child, then the next should marry the widow and carry on his brother's family. 12 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without issue. 12 21 Then the second married her, and he too died without issue. So did the third. 12 22 Eventually the seven of them died, all without issue. Finally the woman died. 12 23 At the resurrection, when they come back to life, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?'
12 24 Jesus said to them, 'You are mistaken, and surely this is the reason: you do not know either the scriptures or the power of God. 12 25 When they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry; they are like angels in heaven. 12 26 'But about the resurrection of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the story of the burning bush, how God spoke to him and said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? 12 27 God is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly mistaken.'