27 ^aThen some of the Sadducees, ^bwho deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,  ‡

28 saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

30 And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.  ‡

31 Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven¹ also; and they left no children, and died.  ‡