Luke 20:33 Meaning and Explanation
“Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The trap question arrives: in the resurrection, whose wife is she, since all seven had her?
What Does Luke 20:33 Mean?
The Sadducees spring their conclusion. The puzzle assumes that the resurrection, if real, must simply restart this world's arrangements — the same households, the same legal entanglements — so that seven competing claims make the whole hope collapse into farce.
Their error is not taking Scripture seriously but imagining God's future as a copy of the present with its problems intact. Small thoughts of God manufacture dilemmas. Jesus is about to answer, not by shrinking the resurrection to fit their question, but by enlarging their sight of what God's power intends — a life beyond the reach of death entirely.
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What does Luke 20:33 mean?
The trap question arrives: in the resurrection, whose wife is she, since all seven had her?