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174:3.1 Before [[Jesus]] could get started with his [[teaching]], another [[group]] came forward to [[question]] him, this time a company of the [[learned]] and crafty [[Sadducees]]. Their [[spokesman]], drawing near to him, said: " Master, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] said that if a [[married]] man should [[die]], leaving no [[children]], his [[brother]] should take the [[wife]] and raise up seed for the deceased brother.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deuteronomy#Chapter_.25] Now there occurred a case where a certain man who had six [[brothers]] died childless; his next brother took his [[wife]] but also soon died, leaving no [[children]]. Likewise did the second [[brother]] take the [[wife]], but he also died leaving no offspring. And so on until all six of the brothers had had her, and all six of them passed on without leaving [[children]]. And then, after them all, the [[woman]] herself died. Now, what we would like to ask you is this: In the [[resurrection]] whose [[wife]] will she be since all [[seven]] of these [[brothers]] had her? "
174:3.2 Jesus knew, and so did the people, that these [[Sadducees]] were not [[sincere]] in asking this [[question]] because it was not likely that such a case would really occur; and besides, this [[practice]] of the [[brothers]] of a [[dead]] man seeking to beget [[children]] for him was practically a [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dead+letter dead letter] at this time among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]. Nevertheless, [[Jesus]] [[condescended]] to reply to their [[mischievous]] question. He said: " You all do [[err]] in asking such [[questions]] because you know neither the [[Scriptures]] nor the living [[power]] of [[God]]. You know that the sons of this world can marry and are given in [[marriage]], but you do not seem to [[understand]] that they who are accounted [[worthy]] to [[attain]] [[Mansion Worlds|the worlds to come]], through the [[resurrection]] of the [[righteous]], neither marry nor are given in [[marriage]]. Those who [[experience]] the [[resurrection]] from the [[dead]] are more like the [[angels]] of [[heaven]], and they never [[die]]. These [[resurrected]] ones are [[eternally]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#PAPER_40:_THE_ASCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD sons of God]; they are the [[children]] of [[light]] [[resurrected]] into the [[progress]] of [[eternal]] life. And even your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Father Moses] [[understood]] this, for, in [[connection]] with his [[experiences]] at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush burning bush], he heard [[the Father]] say, `I am the [[God]] of [[Abraham]], the God of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], and the God of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob].' And so, along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], do I [[declare]] that [[the Father|my Father]] is not the [[God]] of the [[dead]] but of the living. In him you all do live, [[reproduce]], and [[possess]] your [[mortal]] [[existence]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_20]
174:3.3 When [[Jesus]] had finished answering these [[questions]], the [[Sadducees]] withdrew, and some of the [[Pharisees]] so far forgot themselves as to exclaim, " True, true, Master, you have well answered these unbelieving [[Sadducees]]. " The Sadducees [[dared]] not ask him any more [[questions]], and the [[common people]] [[marveled]] at the [[wisdom]] of his teaching.
174:3.4 [[Jesus]] [[appealed]] only to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] in his encounter with the [[Sadducees]] because this religio-[[political]] [[sect]] acknowledged the [[validity]] of only the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah five so-called Books of Moses]; they did not allow that the [[teachings]] of the [[Hebrew Prophets|prophets]] were admissible as a basis of [[doctrinal]] [[dogmas]]. [[The Master]] in his answer, though [[positively]] affirming the [[fact]] of the [[survival]] of [[mortal]] [[creatures]] by the [[technique]] of the [[resurrection]], did not in any sense speak approvingly of the [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] [[beliefs]] in the [[resurrection]] of the [[literal]] [[human]] [[body]]. The point [[Jesus]] [[wished]] to [[emphasize]] was: That [[the Father]] had said, " I am the [[God]] of [[Abraham]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob], " not I was their God.
174:3.5 The [[Sadducees]] had [[thought]] to subject [[Jesus]] to the withering [[influence]] of [[ridicule]], knowing full well that [[persecution]] in [[public]] would most [[certain]]ly [[create]] further [[sympathy]] for him in the [[minds]] of [[the multitude]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_174 Go to Paper 174]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 174 - Tuesday Morning in the Temple]]
174:3.1 Before [[Jesus]] could get started with his [[teaching]], another [[group]] came forward to [[question]] him, this time a company of the [[learned]] and crafty [[Sadducees]]. Their [[spokesman]], drawing near to him, said: " Master, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] said that if a [[married]] man should [[die]], leaving no [[children]], his [[brother]] should take the [[wife]] and raise up seed for the deceased brother.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Deuteronomy#Chapter_.25] Now there occurred a case where a certain man who had six [[brothers]] died childless; his next brother took his [[wife]] but also soon died, leaving no [[children]]. Likewise did the second [[brother]] take the [[wife]], but he also died leaving no offspring. And so on until all six of the brothers had had her, and all six of them passed on without leaving [[children]]. And then, after them all, the [[woman]] herself died. Now, what we would like to ask you is this: In the [[resurrection]] whose [[wife]] will she be since all [[seven]] of these [[brothers]] had her? "
174:3.2 Jesus knew, and so did the people, that these [[Sadducees]] were not [[sincere]] in asking this [[question]] because it was not likely that such a case would really occur; and besides, this [[practice]] of the [[brothers]] of a [[dead]] man seeking to beget [[children]] for him was practically a [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dead+letter dead letter] at this time among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]. Nevertheless, [[Jesus]] [[condescended]] to reply to their [[mischievous]] question. He said: " You all do [[err]] in asking such [[questions]] because you know neither the [[Scriptures]] nor the living [[power]] of [[God]]. You know that the sons of this world can marry and are given in [[marriage]], but you do not seem to [[understand]] that they who are accounted [[worthy]] to [[attain]] [[Mansion Worlds|the worlds to come]], through the [[resurrection]] of the [[righteous]], neither marry nor are given in [[marriage]]. Those who [[experience]] the [[resurrection]] from the [[dead]] are more like the [[angels]] of [[heaven]], and they never [[die]]. These [[resurrected]] ones are [[eternally]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#PAPER_40:_THE_ASCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD sons of God]; they are the [[children]] of [[light]] [[resurrected]] into the [[progress]] of [[eternal]] life. And even your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Father Moses] [[understood]] this, for, in [[connection]] with his [[experiences]] at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush burning bush], he heard [[the Father]] say, `I am the [[God]] of [[Abraham]], the God of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], and the God of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob].' And so, along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], do I [[declare]] that [[the Father|my Father]] is not the [[God]] of the [[dead]] but of the living. In him you all do live, [[reproduce]], and [[possess]] your [[mortal]] [[existence]]. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_20]
174:3.3 When [[Jesus]] had finished answering these [[questions]], the [[Sadducees]] withdrew, and some of the [[Pharisees]] so far forgot themselves as to exclaim, " True, true, Master, you have well answered these unbelieving [[Sadducees]]. " The Sadducees [[dared]] not ask him any more [[questions]], and the [[common people]] [[marveled]] at the [[wisdom]] of his teaching.
174:3.4 [[Jesus]] [[appealed]] only to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] in his encounter with the [[Sadducees]] because this religio-[[political]] [[sect]] acknowledged the [[validity]] of only the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah five so-called Books of Moses]; they did not allow that the [[teachings]] of the [[Hebrew Prophets|prophets]] were admissible as a basis of [[doctrinal]] [[dogmas]]. [[The Master]] in his answer, though [[positively]] affirming the [[fact]] of the [[survival]] of [[mortal]] [[creatures]] by the [[technique]] of the [[resurrection]], did not in any sense speak approvingly of the [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] [[beliefs]] in the [[resurrection]] of the [[literal]] [[human]] [[body]]. The point [[Jesus]] [[wished]] to [[emphasize]] was: That [[the Father]] had said, " I am the [[God]] of [[Abraham]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob], " not I was their God.
174:3.5 The [[Sadducees]] had [[thought]] to subject [[Jesus]] to the withering [[influence]] of [[ridicule]], knowing full well that [[persecution]] in [[public]] would most [[certain]]ly [[create]] further [[sympathy]] for him in the [[minds]] of [[the multitude]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_174 Go to Paper 174]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 174 - Tuesday Morning in the Temple]]
