15. Should we pay [them] or should we not pay [them]? But knowing their hypocrisy, He asked them, Why do you put Me to the test? Bring Me a coin (a denarius), so I may see it.
16. And they brought [Him one]. Then He asked them, Whose image (picture) is this? And whose superscription (title)? They said to Him, Caesar's.
17. Jesus said to them, Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And they stood marveling and greatly amazed at Him.
18. And [some] Sadducees came to Him, [of that party] who say there is no resurrection, and they asked Him a question, saying,
19. Teacher, Moses gave us [a law] that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. [Deut. 25:5.]
20. Now there were seven brothers; the first one took a wife and died, leaving no children.
21. And the second [brother] married her, and died, leaving no children; and the third did the same;
22. And all seven, leaving no children. Last of all, the woman died also.
23. Now in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For the seven were married to her.
24. Jesus said to them, Is not this where you wander out of the way and go wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
25. For when they arise from among the dead, [men] do not marry nor are [women] given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.
26. But concerning the dead being raised–have you not read in the book of Moses, [in the passage] about the [burning] bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? [Exod. 3:2-6.]
27. He is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living! You are very wrong.
28. Then one of the scribes came up and listened to them disputing with one another, and, noticing that Jesus answered them fitly and admirably, he asked Him, Which commandment is first and most important of all [in its nature]?
29. Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord;
30. And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. [Deut. 6:4, 5.]
31. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. [Lev. 19:18.]