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Gospel Luke 20, 27-40 Some Sadducees came to Jesus. Since the Sadducees deny that the dead are resurrected, they put this question to him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies without having a wife, but leaves no children, he should marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom took a wife and died without leaving any children. The second, the third, and the seventh took the widow as their wives. They all died without having any children. Finally, the widow also died. Now when the resurrection comes, whose wife will the woman be, since all seven were married to her?” Jesus said to them, “In this life men and women marry, but in the life to come those who are judged worthy of the resurrection and of the dead will neither marry nor be able to die. For they will be like angels, children of God, for God has raised them from the dead. And that the dead are raised, Moses himself indicates in the episode of the bush, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob. For God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive. Then some of the scribes said to him, "Teacher, you have spoken well." And from that moment on they did not dare to ask him any more questions.