Matthew 22:30
Matthew 22:3030In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
is sometimes invoked by JW publications to support the doctrine that the resurrected anointed (the 144,000) become spirit creatures like the angels — sexless, marriageless, heavenly. The verse is read as evidence that the heavenly resurrection is a transformation into a different kind of being, not a continuation of physical, gendered human life.
Jesus says there is no marriage in the resurrection — he does not say there is no gender or no body. The relational institution of marriage passes away (matched by the angels' state); the creational categories of male and female persist. Pair with (Jesus raised in his identifiably male body), ("a spirit has no flesh and bones, as you see I have"), (the resurrection body is "like his glorious body"), and (Mary recognising the risen Christ as "Rabboni"). The resurrection transforms our bodies; it does not erase what they fundamentally are. also does not erase gender — Paul preserves Jew/Gentile, slave/free, male/female as real categories that have equal access to the Abrahamic inheritance. The Watchtower's "spirit creatures, no body, no gender" picture imports a Platonic anthropology Scripture itself does not teach.