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Luke - ch 20 v 21 - 40
- And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:
- Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?
- But he saw through their trick and said to them,
- Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.
- And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
- And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.
- And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,
- Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.
- Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;
- And the second;
- And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.
- And last of all, the woman came to her end.
- When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.
- And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;
- But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;
- And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.
- But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
- Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.
- And some of the scribes, in answer to this, said, Master, you have said well.
- And they had fear of putting any more questions to him.
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