27 ^cThere came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a ^dresurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, ^eMoses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man¹ must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the ^fresurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36 for they ^gcannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are ^hsons of God, being sons² of the resurrection.