Luke 20:27-32

“Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” vss. 32-33

The Sadducees, who with the Pharisees continually sparred with Jesus about matters of the Law, did not believe in the resurrection. They followed the traditional teaching of the Hebrew scriptures and felt that death was simply the end of life. Those who died went to the place of the dead. It’s what made sense for them. They knew that Jesus, like the Pharisees, did believe in resurrection, so they devised what they thought was a clever question: if a woman had 7 husbands and there were no children, which man would be her husband in the resurrection?  Now in our day, most people tend to believe that there is life after death, but we still have questions. And many of those questions are related to family members who have died. We wonder first of all if they have made it through the pearly gates, and then, assuming that they have, will we be reunited with them? Those are reasonable questions, but they make an assumption about life after death that Jesus does not support. He told the Sadducees that life in the resurrection isn’t anything like life in this world. Everything is changed! And as much as we love life in this world, life in the next will be better. What will it be like? There are no words to describe it, and we’ll just have to be content with that!

Thought for the Day: What do I wonder about life after death?