The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

III. Jesus on the Resurrection of the Dead

The declaration, “I am the resurrection, and the life” (John 11:25), was not merely a doctrine but a tremendous reality, in the experience of the people whom Jesus raised from death. And we also find Him teaching this doctrine, succinctly yet clearly. Those who do not partake of Christ have no self-existent life, He says, but those who do—everyone who believes in the Son of God—He will raise to eternal life on the last day. (John 6:40, 44, 53, 54.) At this “resurrection of the just” the righteous are to be rewarded. (Luke 14:14.) PFF1 139.2

To the Sadducees who are trying to entrap Him, Jesus replies that in the resurrection there is no marrying, but that the saints live like the angels; and being equal to the angels, they will no longer be subject to death. (Luke 20:35-38; see also Matthew 22:30-32; Mark 12:24-27.) And not only the saved, but all the dead, will be called from their graves by the voice of the Son of God to receive their respective rewards at the last day, for there are two resurrections—that of the righteous to life, and that of the evildoers to condemnation. (John 5:28, 29.) PFF1 139.3