Lukas 20:29

20:29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman ¹  and died without children.

Lukas 20:31

20:31 and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.

Lukas 20:33

20:33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? ²  For all seven had married her.” ³ 

Lukas 2:36

The Testimony of Anna

2:36 There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, ⁴  having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

Lukas 8:2

8:2 and also some women ⁵  who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: ⁶  Mary ⁷  (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

Lukas 11:26

11:26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so ⁸  the last state of that person ⁹  is worse than the first.” ¹⁰ 

[20:29]  ¹ tn Grk “took a wife” (an idiom for marrying a woman).

[20:33]  ² sn The point is a dilemma. In a world arguing a person should have one wife, whose wife will she be in the afterlife? The question was designed to show that (in the opinion of the Sadducees) resurrection leads to a major problem.

[20:33]  ³ tn Grk “For the seven had her as wife.”

[2:36]  ⁴ tn Her age is emphasized by the Greek phrase here, “she was very old in her many days.”

[8:2]  ⁵ sn There is an important respect shown to women in this text, as their contributions were often ignored in ancient society.

[8:2]  ⁶ tn Or “illnesses.” The term ἀσθένεια (asqeneia) refers to the state of being ill and thus incapacitated in some way – “illness, disability, weakness.” (L&N 23.143).

[8:2]  ⁷ sn This Mary is not the woman mentioned in the previous passage (as some church fathers claimed), because she is introduced as a new figure here. In addition, she is further specified by Luke with the notation called Magdalene, which seems to distinguish her from the woman at Simon the Pharisee’s house.

[11:26]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.

[11:26]  ⁹ tn Grk “man.” This is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo"), referring to both males and females.

[11:26]  ¹⁰ sn The point of the story is that to fail to respond is to risk a worse fate than when one started.