Matthew 22:25
Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
The verse opens the Sadducees' hypothetical case in which seven brothers successively married the same widow, beginning with the first who married a wife and then died without children and left her to his brother, each in turn taking her as the former died childless. The case was put to Jesus to entangle Him by challenging belief in the resurrection and making bodily resurrection appear absurd. Its question assumed that the dead would rise in the same bodies with the same earthly desires, so that marriage and family relationships would continue as before death.
Jesus rejected that premise, teaching that in the resurrection people do not marry but are like the angels. His plain and intelligent answers to such entangling questions brought precious light to the people and sowed seeds of truth. The verse belongs among His illustrations and warnings against rejecting the Son of God, a warning that applies in every age to those who refuse to receive Him as Redeemer.