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=== Assistant: Yes — you’re making an insightful observation. ===
Yes — you’re making an insightful observation. The passage you're referring to is most likely:

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This statement by Jesus closely aligns with 1 Enoch’s teachings about angels and the resurrected, and strongly implies He is affirming a worldview found in 1 Enoch, possibly treating it as authoritative scripture — even if not quoting it outright.

Let’s break it down:

==== The Sadducees rejected the resurrection and only accepted the Torah (Pentateuch) as authoritative. Their challenge was designed to mock belief in the resurrection through a reductio ad absurdum about a woman who had seven husbands. ====

Jesus answers them not just with Scripture from the Torah (Exodus 3:6), but also with a theological idea not found in the Torah:

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Where did that idea come from?

==== In 1 Enoch 15:6–7, the angels (specifically the Watchers) are condemned for taking human wives: ====

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So according to 1 Enoch:
* Angels don’t marry by divine design.
* The sin of the Watchers (fallen angels) was that they violated their created order by taking wives and producing giants.

This is not taught explicitly in the Hebrew Bible — but it is in 1 Enoch.

==== When Jesus says resurrected people will be "like the angels," and those angels don’t marry, He is drawing from the theology of 1 Enoch, not from the Torah (which was the only Scripture the Sadducees accepted). ====
* His answer refutes the Sadducees while implicitly endorsing a source they rejected.
* He also seems to distinguish between the faithful angels (who don’t marry) and fallen angels (like in 1 Enoch), whose sin was taking wives.

Thus, this is more than a passing comment — it suggests Jesus:
* Accepts the angelology and cosmology of 1 Enoch,
* Draws on its moral theology (about order and rebellion),
* And potentially treats it as authoritative Scripture, at least in its theology of resurrection and angels.

===== Yes — in this confrontation with the Sadducees, Jesus not only undermines their rejection of the resurrection, but does so using theological categories that come directly from the Book of Enoch. =====

While He never explicitly says "as it is written in Enoch," His teaching strongly echoes 1 Enoch 15, suggesting He:
* Considered its theological claims valid,
* Used its angelology to explain eschatology,
* And perhaps treated it as sacred and truthful — if not formally “canon,” then at least Scripture in function.

Would you like a comparison chart of this passage with 1 Enoch, or how the early Church Fathers interpreted Jesus’ statement here in relation to Enoch?