Moffatt(i)
20 So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
21 They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.
22 Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?"
23 But he noted their knavery and said to them,
24 "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.
25 "Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God."
26 So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.
27 Some of the Sadducees came up, who deny any resurrection, and put a question to him.
28 "Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.
29 Well, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless.
30 The second
31 and the third took her, as indeed all the seven did, dying and leaving no children.
32 Afterwards the woman died too.
33 Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."
34 Jesus said to them, "People in this world marry and are married,
35 but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,
36 for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.
37 And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'
38 God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."
39 Some of the scribes declared, "Teacher, that was a fine answer!"
40 They no longer dared to put any question to him.