The same day, some Sadducees who didn’t believe in the resurrection approached Jesus to challenge him on the Law of Moses.
“Teacher, Moses taught us that if a married man dies childless, his brother must marry his wife and have children with her, because legally, they are his brother’s children. For instance, once there were seven brothers. The first married and died childless. The second brother married her and he too died without having any children. One after the other, all seven of the brothers married this same woman and died, leaving her childless. Then she finally died. Therefore, when the resurrection happens, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven of them?”
“None of you know the Scriptures or the power of God,” Jesus said. “People in this age marry and are given in marriage, but it won’t be like that in the age to come. In the resurrection, people are like angels. There is no need for them to marry.”
He continued, getting to the real reason for their question. “Concerning the resurrection of the dead, don’t you remember the passage in scriptures when God spoke to Moses from the burning bush? He said ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ We learn from this that God is the God of the living, not the dead, because in God’s eyes, all are living with him.”
They were impressed with what he had just taught them, and no longer dared to question him.
MT 22:23-33, MK 12:18-27, LK 20:27-40