Matthew 22:15-33.

Matthew 22.15-33
Paying Taxes

"The Pharisees got together and planned how they could trick Jesus
into saying something wrong. They sent some of their followers and
some of Herod's followers to say to him, "Teacher, we know that you
are honest. You teach the truth about what God wants people to do. And
you treat everyone with the same respect, no matter who they are.
Tell us what you think! Should we pay taxes to the Emperor or not?"
Jesus knew their evil thoughts and said, "Why are you trying to test
me? You show-offs! Let me see one of the coins used for paying
taxes." They brought him a silver coin, and he asked, "Whose picture
and name are on it?"

"The Emperor's," they answered. Then Jesus told them, "Give the
Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God." His
answer surprised them so much that they walked away.

Life in the Future World

The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after
death. So that same day some of the Sadducees came to Jesus and said:
Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children,
his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be
thought of as the son of the dead brother. Once there were seven
brothers who lived here. The first one married, but died without
having any children. So his wife was left to his brother. The same
thing happened to the second and third brothers and finally to all
seven of them. At last the woman died. When God raises people from
death, whose wife will this woman be? She had been married to all
seven brothers.

Jesus answered:

You are completely wrong! You don't know what the Scriptures teach.
And you don't know anything about the power of God. When God raises
people to life, they won't marry. They will be like the angels in
heaven. And as for people being raised to life, God was speaking to
you when he said, "I am the God worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob." He isn't the God of the dead, but of the living. The crowds
were surprised to hear what Jesus was teaching."

God bless you.

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