Another said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

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

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.