He responds that marriage belongs to this age but in the age to come there will not be marriage. In the age to come there is no death and therefore there is no need to preserve one s name, family, or race. The resurrected ones are like angels being children of God and of the resurrection. In other words Jesus corrects the Sadducees. Death is not the absolute end.
Death is rather the end which is a beginning.
W e do not know much about the Sadducees. What we do know is very interesting for those of us living in our day. The Sadducees were a conservative religious party in Jerusalem. They accepted only the Five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch, as sacred scripture. They had much to lose if anarchy broke out.