woman died. 33 Now, on the day when the dead are raised to life, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her!”

34. Jesus answered them: “The men and women of this age marry, 35 but men and women who are worthy to be raised from death and live in the age to come do not marry. 36 They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the sons of God, because they have risen from death. 37 And Moses clearly proves that the dead are raised to life. In the passage about the burning bush he speaks of the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38 He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive.”

39. Some of the teachers of the Law spoke up, “A good answer, Teacher!”

40 For they did not dare ask him any more questions.

The Question about the Messiah  

41. Jesus asked them, “How can it be said that the Messiah will be the descendant of David? 42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms,

‘The Lord said to my Lord:

Sit here on my right

43. until I put your enemies as a

footstool under your feet.’

44. David called him ‘Lord’; how, then, can the Messiah be David’s descendant?”

Jesus warns against the Teachers of the Law

45. As all the people listened to him, Jesus said to his disciples, 46 “Be on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who like to walk about in their long robes and love to be greeted with respect in the market-place; who choose the reserved seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts; 47 who take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers! Their punishment will be all the worse!”

Chapter - 21 The Widow’s Offering

1. Jesus looked round and saw rich men dropping their gifts in the temple treasury, 2 and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins. 3 He said, “I tell you that this poor widow put in more than all the others. 4 For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on.”