23. In the resurrection, when they rise up, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”
24. Yeshua said to them, “Isn’t this the reason you’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God?
25. For when they rise up from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26. But concerning the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moses 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’?
27. He’s not the God of the dead, but of the living. You have gone far astray!”
28. One of the Torah scholars came and heard them debating. Seeing that Yeshua had answered them well, he asked Him, “Which commandment is first of all?”
29. Yeshua answered, “The first is, ‘Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
30. And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
31. The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
32. “Well said, Teacher,” the Torah scholar said to Him. “You have spoken the truth, that He is echad, and besides Him there is no other!
33. And ‘to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love the neighbor as oneself,’ is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34. When Yeshua saw that he had answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared any longer to question Him.
35. While Yeshua was teaching in the Temple, He said, “How is it that the Torah scholars say that the Messiah is Ben-David?
36. David himself, through the Ruach ha-Kodesh, said, ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
37. If David himself calls Him ‘Lord,’ in what way is He his son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.
38. In His teaching He said, “Watch out for the Torah scholars, who like to walk around in long robes. They like greetings in the marketplaces,
39. the best seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at feasts.