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St Matthew 22:26-38 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

26. In like manner the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh.

27. And last of all the woman died also.

28. At the resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? for they all had her.

29. And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

30. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

31. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:

32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33. And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine.

34. But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together:

35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:

36. Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

37. Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

38. This is the greatest and the first commandment.

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