Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.