Luke 20:29 meaning and explanation

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife, but died childless.

Luke 20:29, Berean Standard Bible

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These words belong to the Sadducees, a group who denied the resurrection, and they are setting a trap for Jesus in the temple courts. They build a hypothetical case from the law of levirate marriage in Deuteronomy 25, where a brother raised up offspring for a dead brother.

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