Luke 20:34
Jesus said to them: The children of this world take wives, and wives are given to husbands.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
In Context
33In the resurrection, therefore, of which of them will she be the wife, for the seven took her?
Cross References
Luke 17:27They ate and drank, they took wives and were given to husbands, until the day that Noah entered the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed every one.
Ephesians 5:31For this reason, a man should quit his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the two should be one flesh.
Matthew Henry on Luke 20:28-39
The Cavil of the Sadducees. 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like… Read the whole commentary →