²⁸ They wanted to ask Jesus a question. ‘Teacher,’ they said to him, ‘Moses wrote this in the Bible for us: “A man may die and leave a wife but no children. Then that man's brother must marry the woman. Then their children will be called the children of the brother who died.” ²⁹ But once there were seven brothers. The oldest brother married a woman. Then he died before they had any children. ³⁰ So the second brother married this woman. But he also died without children.