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The Book of Jesus Chapter Fifteen: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
Matthew 22:15-22; Mark 12:13-17; Luke 20:20-26
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The Resurrection of the Dead
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NARRATOR.
The same day some Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him:
SADDUCEES.
Master, Moses wrote to us and said; "If a man who he married dies and leaves his wife without giving her any children, the brother of
the deceased man is supposed to marry his sister-in-law in order to raise up children for his brother. Now we had a matter involving
seven brothers. The first, married a wife, died without children, and left his wife to his brother. The second brother married her and he
likewise died without having any children. The same thing happened with the third and likewise to the rest of the seven, they married
her but left her childless. Finally the woman herself died. Now in the resurrection when they rise again, which one of the seven
bothers will be her husband, since they were all married to her at one time or another during her lifetime?
JESUS.
Is it because you do not understand the scriptures or the power of God that you're reasoning is so faulty. The children of this world
take wives and husbands, but those men and women who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from
the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage when they rise from the dead because they can no longer die. They are like the
angels in heaven. Being children of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
Now as for the resurrection of the dead, Moses himself wrote that the dead rise again. Haven't you never read in the book of Moses, in
the passage about the bush, what God himself said to you. God spoke to him and said: "I am 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. You are therefore making a very serious error; for to Him all
men are in fact alive.
NARRATOR.
His teaching made a deep impression on all the people who had heard it.
Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38
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The Greatest Commandment
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NARRATOR.
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they got together. One of them, a Scribe who was a lawyer, having
heard them debate with the Sadducees and had observed how well Jesus had answered them, came up to Jesus and in an attempt to
disconcert him, put a question to him and said:
SCRIBE 1.
Which is the first and greatest of all the commandments?
JESUS.
This is the first: "Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord! And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your being and with all your mind and with all your strength." This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is this:
"You must love your neighbor as yourself." There is no greater than these. On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the
Prophets.
NARRATOR.
Some scribes then spoke up and said:
SCRIBES.
Well put, Master!
SCRIBE 1.
What you have said is true! Because there is only one God, and there is no other but Him. And to love Him with all your heart, with
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