How did Jesus answer the Sadducees question about marriage in the afterlife?
Matt. 22:23-30. Among the errors of the Sadducees was that they did not believe in the power of the Spirit of God acting in human affairs. In their skepticism they denied the existence of angels, the resurrection, and eternal life. So, thinking to embarrass Jesus, they asked a speculative question about the consequences of the levirate marriage law (Deut. 25:5, 6) in the resurrection. But, to Jesus, their big problem was that they did not know the power of God or His Word. They “forgot that a God powerful enough to raise men from the dead also had the wisdom and power to set up anew a perfect order of society in the perfect new earth. Furthermore, all who are saved will be contented and happy with the glorious new order of things, even though they cannot fully realize in this life what the future will bring forth. … Evidently there will be no need for marriage, because a different order of life will prevail.”-The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 483. According to Jesus, then, in the
