Luke 20:29-33

Jesus’ critics posed a possible but far-fetched case of levirate marriage. Their obvious purpose was to show that belief in the resurrection of the body was ludicrous and that Jesus was wrong to advocate it. However, they made the unwarranted assumption that life in a resurrected body would involve sexual relations as we know them now. The problem was that none of the woman’s seven husbands had fathered a child by her. Consequently none of them had any special claim on her as his wife.