And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
The sayings about rejecting the Son of God stand as warnings and illustrations that speak to people in every age, and unless a sinner repents the doom they foreshadow will come upon him. The statement that the children of this world marry and are given in marriage describes marriage as belonging to life in this world, to mortal life on earth.
It was spoken to correct the Sadducees, who argued against bodily resurrection on the false premise that resurrected life would simply resume earthly life. They reasoned that if the dead rose with the same bodies and propensities, earthly relationships including marriage would resume. Their belief was that life after the resurrection would simply continue earthly life, including marriage and its relationships.
That reasoning does not apply to the resurrection, where people do not marry or enter marriage. The relationships and arrangements of earthly life do not continue there. The risen live an immortal life unlike mortal life, not under the same conditions, arrangements, and frailties as before death, but like the angels.
The dead will hear the Son of God's voice, rise from their graves, and live again as God's people, in a close and tender relationship with him. This means that marriage, as instituted in Eden, will not exist in Paradise or the new earth. Neither those raised from the dead nor those translated without dying will marry or be given in marriage, so there will be no marriages or births there, but they will be like God's angels and belong to the royal family.
The sayings about rejecting the Son of God stand as warnings and illustrations that speak to people in every age, and unless a sinner repents the doom they foreshadow will come upon him. The statement that the children of this world marry and are given in marriage describes marriage as belonging to life in this world, to mortal life on earth.
It was spoken to correct the Sadducees, who argued against bodily resurrection on the false premise that resurrected life would simply resume earthly life. They reasoned that if the dead rose with the same bodies and propensities, earthly relationships including marriage would resume. Their belief was that life after the resurrection would simply continue earthly life, including marriage and its relationships.
That reasoning does not apply to the resurrection, where people do not marry or enter marriage. The relationships and arrangements of earthly life do not continue there. The risen live an immortal life unlike mortal life, not under the same conditions, arrangements, and frailties as before death, but like the angels.
The dead will hear the Son of God's voice, rise from their graves, and live again as God's people, in a close and tender relationship with him. This means that marriage, as instituted in Eden, will not exist in Paradise or the new earth. Neither those raised from the dead nor those translated without dying will marry or be given in marriage, so there will be no marriages or births there, but they will be like God's angels and belong to the royal family.