Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put
this question to him, 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 and died, leaving no descendants. So the second brother married
her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. And the seven
left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. At the resurrection when
they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the Scriptures
or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor
are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead
being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the
bush, how God told him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”
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Reflection:
Is there an afterlife or resurrection after our life in this world is
over? There is but it's very different from the life that we have right now.
In the gospel a religious group who do not believe in the resurrection
asked Jesus about a woman who married seven brothers that subsequently died one
after the other. They asked Jesus, whose wife would she be in the afterlife?
Jesus said to them, "Are you not misled because you do not
know the Scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in
heaven.
The resurrected life with Jesus in heaven is totally different from the
life that we have right now. If here we have pains and sorrows there shall be
no more there, what we will have there is a life with Jesus that is blissful
and heavenly. We must aspire for that heavenly life and we must start right now
by following the teachings of Jesus.
Do we follow the teachings of the Lord? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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