12:18 撒都該人常說沒有復活的事。他們來問耶穌說：
12:19 「夫子，摩西為我們寫著說：『人若死了，撇下妻子，沒有孩子，他兄弟當娶他的妻，為哥哥生子立後。』
12:20 有弟兄七人，第一個娶了妻，死了，沒有留下孩子。
12:21 第二個娶了她，也死了，沒有留下孩子。第三個也是這樣。
12:22 那七個人都沒有留下孩子；末了，那婦人也死了。
12:23 當復活的時候，她是哪一個的妻子呢？因為他們七個人都娶過她。」
12:24 耶穌說：「你們所以錯了，豈不是因為不明白聖經，不曉得上帝的大能嗎？
12:25 人從死裡復活，也不娶也不嫁，乃像天上的使者一樣。
12:26 論到死人復活，你們沒有念過摩西的書荊棘篇上所載的嗎？上帝對摩西說：『我是亞伯拉罕的上帝，以撒的上帝，雅各的上帝。』
12:27 上帝不是死人的上帝，乃是活人的上帝。你們是大錯了。」
18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22 In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At the resurrection[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[d]? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
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人常常為細微的道理討論得面紅耳赤，卻忘記真正重要的事情！就像撒督該人不相信復活的事情，卻討論兄弟同娶一妻，將來復活如何處理的事情，不是很沒有意義！
所以主耶穌就直接用上帝的屬性，來回答他們無意義的詢問。因為「上帝不是死人的上帝，乃是活人的上帝」。這表示死人已經與上帝隔絕，是不再受律法的約束，人也無用討論死後會怎樣，重要是要把握活著的時候，悔改歸向上帝，才有復活的確據！
我們今日要讓人知道，唯有透過耶穌基督的拯救，才有真正的復活，與上帝有永遠父子的關係！其他末枝末節的事，就無庸置疑，上帝會有最好的安排，無須費心於此！
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