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TODAY’S GOSPEL READING
22 NOVEMBER, 2025
Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them,
“The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called ‘Lord’
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive.”
Some of the scribes said in reply,
“Teacher, you have answered well.”
And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD!
REFLECTION
In this passage, the Sadducees approach Jesus with a question meant to trap Him, using a hypothetical scenario about marriage and resurrection. Jesus responds by revealing that earthly categories do not limit God’s eternal kingdom. He teaches that in the resurrection, life is transformed—those who belong to God will share in a life where death has no hold and earthly structures no longer define relationships. Jesus affirms the resurrection by pointing to God’s nature: He is the God of the living, not the dead. Through this, Jesus invites us to trust in the reality of eternal life and to anchor our hope in God’s unchanging faithfulness.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, You are the God of the living, and in You there is life without end. Open my heart to understand Your truth beyond earthly limitations. Strengthen my faith in the promise of the resurrection and the eternal life You offer. Help me to trust Your wisdom, to hope in Your faithfulness, and to live each day with a heart anchored in eternity. Amen
