Read Luke 20:27-40 with your family.

In the Hebrew tradition at the time when Jesus was alive and teaching 2000 years ago, there were three groups of people, three different ways of understanding what they believed. The Essenes who had a lot in common with Jesus’ followers, the Pharisees who were regular folks and challenged Jesus all the time, and the Sadducees who were from rich families and did not agree with Jesus’ teachings about God at all.

Our story today tells about a time the Sadducees challenged Jesus about a new life after death. The Essenes and Pharisees agreed with Jesus that there was something more after you died. The Sadducees did not believe in life after death. So the Sadducees tried to set Jesus up.

But once again, Jesus was ready for the Sadducees and told them that life after death looking a lot different than the life they were living.

In life after death, what we often call Heaven, everyone is alive in God and free to love each other without all the rules that divide people of this life.