15 The Pharisees left and formed plans to trap him by his words. 16 They sent some of their own people to him, along with some supporters of Herod, who said, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, that you teach the way of God honestly, that you do not try to please people, and that you do not consider the standing of a person. 17 Tell us what you think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?” 18 Jesus, recognizing their malice, said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? 19 Show me a coin you would pay taxes with.” The handed him a silver Roman coin. 20 He said to them, “Whose image is this? Whose name is on the inscription?” 21 They said, “The emperor’s.” He said to them, “Then pay to the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and to God what belongs to God.” 22 When they heard this, they were amazed. They left him and went away.

23 Later that day, some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to ask him questions. 24 They said, “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies without children, his brother should marry the wife to raise up descendants in his brother’s name. 25 Say there were seven brothers. The oldest married and then died. Since he had no children, his brother married the woman. 26 This second brother died childless, and so did the third, all the way to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 At the resurrection, whose wife will she be, for all seven were married to her?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are misled because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection, men and women do not marry but are like the angels in heaven. 31 Regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God says to you in the passage that reads, 32 I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the living.” 33 When they heard this, the crowd was astonished at his teaching.