Part 28

022:024 "Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, `If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

022:025 Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.

022:026 So also did the second and the third, down to the seventh,

022:027 till the woman also died, after surviving them all.

022:028 At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

022:029 The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.

022:030 For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

022:031 But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,

022:032 `I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead, but of living men."

022:033 All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.

022:034 Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,

022:035 and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,

022:036 "Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?"

022:037 "`Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "`with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'

022:038 This is the greatest and foremost Commandment.

022:039 And the second is similar to it: `Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'

022:040 The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

022:041 While the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus put a question to them.

022:042 "What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied.

022:043 "How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says,

022:044 "`The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?

022:045 "If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"

022:046 No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him.

023:001 Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples.

023:002 "The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses.

023:003 Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves.

023:004 Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them.

023:005 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,