The Gospel Luke 20:27-38
Officiant: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
People: Glory to you, Lord Christ.
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man
shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the
first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same
way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose
wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her." Jesus said to them, "Those who belong
to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that
age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they
cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the
resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the
bush, where he speaks of the Lord as 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; for to him all of them are alive."
Officiant: The Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to you Lord, Christ