Gospel: Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came
forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If
someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the
wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the
first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married
her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now
at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been
married to her.” Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and
remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the
resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no
longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because
they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known
in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the
living, for to him all are alive.” Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher,
you have answered well.” And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
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Reflection:
Why are we striving to live a life worthy in the eyes of God? This is
for the reason that we believe in the resurrection. We believe that after our
walk in this world is already over we would be raised once again to a new life
that is very much different from our present life right now.
The Sadducees who do not believe in the resurrection put in-front of
Jesus a situation about a woman who married one after the other seven brothers.
Their question for Jesus was to whom would the woman belong after all of them
dies? Would she belong to brother number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7? They’ve asked
this question to prove to everyone that there is no resurrection. Otherwise if
there is a resurrection then there would be a dilemma for the woman and the seven
brothers who married her.
But Jesus incisively answered the Sadducees that life in the resurrection
is very much different from their present lives. During the resurrected life
there would be no more marriage, no more death for everyone will be like angels
according to Jesus.
We must all aspire for this resurrected life that Jesus mentions to us
in the gospel. We start by living a life founded in our close relationship with
Jesus. A life that is clean and righteous before the eyes of God and men.
Is your present lifestyle worthy of resurrection in heaven with Jesus? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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