19. The scribes and chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people, for they knew that he had addressed this parable to them.
20. They watched him closely and sent agents pretending to be righteous who were to trap him in speech, in order to hand him over to the authority and power of the governor.
21. They posed this question to him, “Teacher, we know that what you say and teach is correct, and you show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
22. Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?”
23. Recognizing their craftiness he said to them,
24. “Show me a denarius; whose image and name does it bear?” They replied, “Caesar’s.”
25. So he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”
26. They were unable to trap him by something he might say before the people, and so amazed were they at his reply that they fell silent.
27. Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him,
28. saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
29. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless.
30. Then the second
31. and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless.
32. Finally the woman also died.
33. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”
34. Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage;
35. but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
37. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;