At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her? — the punchline question exposes the Sadducees' assumption: they are imagining resurrection as the resumption of current-life arrangements. The impossibility they see (she cannot be wife to seven simultaneously) is based on the assumption that marriage persists through the resurrection unchanged. Jesus' answer will challenge the assumption, not the resurrection.

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