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:
Do you
believe in the afterlife?
The
afterlife/everlasting life is very different from this present life where we
are in. Our life here has an eventual ending. The life everlasting has no
ending there shall be no more suffering for us there.
It will
be a heavenly experience for all of us there. But the sad reality is this: Not
all of us will have that divine experience. Some will go to the other side
where it will endlessly be hot; where there exist eternal suffering.
In the
gospel, Jesus was asked by the Sadducees (who did not believe in the resurrection)
regarding a woman who married seven brothers in different time period. They
said: “In the afterlife whose wife will that woman be?”
Jesus
gave them a glimpse of what it is in the resurrection when He said: “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.
We should
strive to be in that place by doing good and by following the way of Jesus. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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