Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis. Let's dive straight into today's passage. This is the gospel

reading you would hear at Mass, so we'll read it out, and then we'll have a go at doing

a verse-by-verse exegesis of it. So we're looking at Luke chapter 20 versus 27 to 38. Some sadducees,

those who say there is no resurrection, approached Jesus and they put this question to him.

Master, we have it from Moses in writing that if a man's married brother dies childless,

the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.

Well then, there were seven brothers.

The first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow.

And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children.

Finally, the woman herself died.

Now at the resurrection, to which of them will she be wife, since she had been married

to all seven?

Jesus replied, The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged

worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry

because they can no longer die, for they are the

same as the angels. And being children of the resurrection, they are sons of God. And Moses himself

implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God

of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Now, he is God not of the dead, but of the living, for to him, all men are in fact alive.

Interesting passage. So what's the context here? Jesus has just arrived in Jerusalem for the last week of his life.

Already now he's cleansed the temple and now he's teaching in the temple in the days leading up to his death.

The Jewish leaders want to get rid of Jesus. And just before this, he's been asked by the Jewish leaders about paying taxes to Caesar.

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