Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Luke 20:36
This passage is a response from Jesus to the Sadducees, who believed that there was no resurrection from the dead and that there were no angels or spirits. The Pharisees believed in the resurrection from the dead and in angels and spirits.
The Sadducees declared they could not believe in the resurrection because there was no information about it and no proof of it, in the Books of the law, which Moses was held to have written.
So far no Rabbi had been able to meet them on that ground, but Jesus did. He pointed out that Moses himself had heard God say, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. (Exodus 3:1-6) and that it was impossible that God should be the God of the dead. Therefore Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are still alive in the life to come.
For us, Jesus is living proof that the dead "cannot die anymore". We are "children of the resurrection". Alleluia!
Bill Ticknor+
