And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
The account concerns the third in a line of seven brothers who each in turn took the same woman as wife, and like the rest he died leaving no children. This sevenfold succession was put forward as a test case against the resurrection. Those who framed it assumed that if people were raised, they would simply take up earthly ties and everyday affairs again just as before death.
The question was a clever and artful attempt to trap and entangle Christ. His answers to the questions laid before Him were plain and intelligent. They brought precious light to the people who heard them.
This detail stands within Jesus' warnings and illustrations about rejecting the Son of God. Those warnings apply to people in every age who refuse to receive Him as Redeemer. The doom they foreshadow will come upon the unrepentant.
The account concerns the third in a line of seven brothers who each in turn took the same woman as wife, and like the rest he died leaving no children. This sevenfold succession was put forward as a test case against the resurrection. Those who framed it assumed that if people were raised, they would simply take up earthly ties and everyday affairs again just as before death.
The question was a clever and artful attempt to trap and entangle Christ. His answers to the questions laid before Him were plain and intelligent. They brought precious light to the people who heard them.
This detail stands within Jesus' warnings and illustrations about rejecting the Son of God. Those warnings apply to people in every age who refuse to receive Him as Redeemer. The doom they foreshadow will come upon the unrepentant.