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Matthew - ch 22 v 21 - 40
- They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
- And hearing it, they were full of wonder, and went away from him.
- On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,
- Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;
- Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;
- In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.
- And last of all the woman came to her end.
- When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.
- But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
- For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.
- But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:
- I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
- And the people hearing it were surprised at his teaching.
- But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;
- And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,
- Master, which is the chief rule in the law?
- And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
- This is the first and greatest rule.
- And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
- On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
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