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Thread #59423   Message #947837
Posted By: Bagpuss
07-May-03 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: Quiz - Henry VIII
Subject: RE: Quiz - Henry VIII
I know nowt about Henry VIII, but I am slightly confused by the answer to question 3. If it was forbidden in the Old Testament for a man to take his brother's wife after he died, why then did the Sadducees come up with the following question to catch out Jesus?

-The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, saying: "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were with us seven brothers. The first dies after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. Likewise the second also, and the third even to the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her."

Bagpuss