bwe - Luke:20:27-40

bwe@Luke:20:27 @ Some of the Sadducees came to Jesus. (They say that people do not rise from death.)

bwe@Luke:20:28 @ They came to ask Jesus a question. Teacher, they said, Moses gave us this law: "If a man dies and leaves a wife but no children, then his brother must marry the wife and raise a family for his brother."

bwe@Luke:20:29 @ There were seven brothers. The first one married. He died and left no children.

bwe@Luke:20:30 @ The second one married the wife.

bwe@Luke:20:31 @ Then the third one married her. All seven brothers married her. They all had no children and they died.

bwe@Luke:20:32 @ Last of all, the woman died also.

bwe@Luke:20:33 @ Now then, when people rise from death, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her.

bwe@Luke:20:34 @ Jesus said to them, Men and women in this world marry.

bwe@Luke:20:35 @ But men and women who are good enough to have a place in the next world and to be raised from death do not marry.

bwe@Luke:20:36 @ They cannot die again. They are like angels. They are Gods children because they have been raised from death.

bwe@Luke:20:37 @ Even Moses showed that people do rise from death. It is in his book where we read about the small tree which burned. Moses says that the Lord is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

bwe@Luke:20:38 @ He is not the God of dead people, but of living people. All people are alive to him.

bwe@Luke:20:39 @ Some of the scribes said to him, Teacher, what you say is right.

bwe@Luke:20:40 @ After that, people were afraid to ask him any more questions.