26and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.
27And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,
28saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one`s brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.
29`There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,
30and the second took the wife, and he died childless,
31and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;
