"Jesus, I've got a question for you."

It was a game just about everyone wanted to play with Jesus.  Those who asked questions fell into two categories:  friendlies and hostiles. [Many confirmation classes like to play this game as well.  It's called 'stump the Pastor.']

This Sunday we get the hostiles.  They are really only out to make Jesus look ridiculous. What a silly question about 7 brothers, one wife and no sons. Yes, Israel did practice what is known as Leverite marraige where a brother will 'raise up' sons for a dead brother.  But really, these folks are just being provocative.

What they get from Jesus is the promise of a resurrection that is completely different from the reality they now know.  Women will not be given and taken in marriage.  Women won't be the pawns of a patriarchal society whose focus is male children so their line would be continued and their name remembered.   Men won't be the pawns of a patriarchal society where being the second born was never a good position to be in.   It will all be different.

Only those who are not sitting on the top of the world hear this as good news.  Only those who are being left behind, hungry, homeless, unwanted and /or crushed will look with longing for a time when God rights the world and justice prevails. Justice for the whole of creation.  A new order.
......where people are not owned but loved.  
That's what Jesus is talking about.  see Luke 20.27-40