The words belong to the question about the resurrection that the Sadducees brought to Jesus, with the death of the woman last of all forming one detail of their case. The question was contrived to make belief in the bodily resurrection appear absurd and to discredit Him. It rested on the assumption that the risen would have the same bodily matter and propensities as before death, so that earthly relationships including marriage would resume and life would continue as before.
The teaching in which this detail stands is a warning about rejecting the Son of God, and it applies to every age. Those who refuse Christ as Redeemer face the doom foreshadowed by the examples given in that teaching. That doom falls unless they repent.
The words belong to the question about the resurrection that the Sadducees brought to Jesus, with the death of the woman last of all forming one detail of their case. The question was contrived to make belief in the bodily resurrection appear absurd and to discredit Him. It rested on the assumption that the risen would have the same bodily matter and propensities as before death, so that earthly relationships including marriage would resume and life would continue as before.
The teaching in which this detail stands is a warning about rejecting the Son of God, and it applies to every age. Those who refuse Christ as Redeemer face the doom foreshadowed by the examples given in that teaching. That doom falls unless they repent.