And Sadducees came to him, who say there is no resurrection, and they asked him : 

‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us ‘If a brother of someone dies and leaves behind a wife and yet does not leave a child, then (Mose wrote )his brother should take the wife and  raise up offspring for him. 

;There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying he did not leave any offspring.
And the second took her, and he died, not leaving any offspring;
And the seven did not leave any offspring. 

‘Last of all, the woman also died. 

‘At the resurrection (when they rise again) whose wife will she be?’

Jesus said to them: ‘You are mistaken, aren’t you? Because of this: having not known the Scriptures or the power of God. For when they rise again from the dead, then they will neither marry or be given in marriage, but they will be as angels in the heavens.

‘Concerning the dead, that are raised – you have read in the Book of Moses, in the passage at the bush, how God said to him “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”, haven’t you? He is not god of the dead, but the living. You are greatly mistaken.’

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert