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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 22:28

“In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

So the question now was as to whose wife she would be in the resurrection, for she had been married to all and had had sexual relations with them all. Whichever one was selected they would have had arguments which would have demonstrated why that suggestion was wrong, for each one married the wife of the one above so as to produce an heir for that one, and to perpetuate his name. It was a question that had never failed to bamboozle their opponents.

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