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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 22:23-33

Conversation of Jesus with the Sadducees respecting the resurrection - See also Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38.Matthew 22:23The same day came the Sadducees - For an account of the Sadducees, see the notes at Matthew 3:7.No resurrection - The word “resurrection” usually means the raising up the “body” to life after it is dead, John 11:24; John 5:29; 1 Corinthians 15:22. But the Sadducees not only denied this, but also a future state, and the separate existence of the soul after death altogether,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 22:23

Matthew 22:23. The same day came to him the Sadducees Concerning whose doctrines and conduct see note on Matthew 3:7; which say, there is no resurrection Nor indeed any future life at all, as the word αναστασις , here rendered resurrection, is considered by many learned men as signifying; their doctrine being, that when the body dies the soul dies with it, and that there is no state of rewards or punishments after death, and no judgment to come. “The word αναστασις ,” says Dr. Campbell,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 22:24-28

Matthew 22:24-28. Master, Moses said, If a man die, &c. “The argument by which the Sadducees endeavoured to confute the notion of a future state was taken from the Jewish law of marriage, which, to give their objection the better colour, they observed was God’s law, delivered by Moses. As they believed the soul to be nothing but a more refined kind of matter, they thought if there was any future state, it must resemble the present; and, that men being in that state material and mortal,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 22:23-33

126. Marriage and the resurrection (Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40)Next a group of Sadducees came to Jesus with a question. According to the law of Moses, if a man died childless, his brother was to have a temporary marital relationship with the widow for the purpose of producing an heir (Deuteronomy 25:5-6). The question put by the Sadducees concerned an unlikely situation where a widow would meet seven husbands, all brothers, in the resurrection. Since Sadducees did not... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 22:23

The same day = On (Greek. en. App-104 .) that same day. the Sadducees. No Article. See App-120 . is no resurrection = is not a resurrection. no. Greek. me. Denying subjectively not the fact, but asserting their disbelief of the fact. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 22:24

Moses. See note on Matthew 8:4 . If a man die. &c. An hypothetical case. See App-118 . Quoted from Deuteronomy 25:5 . See App-107 . die = should die. children. Greek. teknon, here put for son. So Deuteronomy 25:5 . marry. Greek. epigambreuo. Occurs only in Matthew. Used here because it specially refers to a marriage between relatives. seed = issue, as in Matthew 22:25 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 22:23

On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him ...The Sadducees were the sophisticated materialists of their day, relatively few in number, but holding most of the important offices of the Jewish system. They despised spiritual things, especially anything bordering on the supernatural, and were thoroughly detested and hated by the Pharisees who made common cause with them only in opposition to Christ. They too had a question for Jesus. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 22:24

Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed, left his wife unto his brother; in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And after them all, the woman died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.First, note the question on its merits, or... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 22:23

Matthew 22:23. The same day came to him the Sadducees— It is generally known that Sadoc, the master of this sect, and from whom the Sadducees took their name, thought that God was not to be served from mercenary principles; that is to say, as he crudely explained it, from the hope of reward, or fear of punishment. His followers interpreted this as an implicit denial of a future state, and so imbibed that pernicious notion of the utter destruction of the soul at death;—equally uncomfortable and... read more

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