Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
So here's the question: when everyone rises from the dead, whose wife is she going to be? Because all seven brothers were married to her at some point.
They're basically asking Jesus to solve the ultimate relationship drama.
📚 Historical Context
In the time of Jesus, the Sadducees were a Jewish religious group that did not believe in the resurrection of the dead and often challenged Jesus' teachings. They presented this question based on an Old Testament law from Deuteronomy, which required a man to marry his deceased brother's widow to continue the family line, using a hypothetical story of a woman who married seven brothers. This was an attempt to trap Jesus and expose what they saw as contradictions in the idea of life after death.
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