25. When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.
26. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, [the] God of Isaac, and [the] God of Jacob’?
27. He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”
28. One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”