Luke 20:27-40

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 20:27-38

This discourse with the Sadducees we had before, just as it is here, only that the description Christ gives of the future state is somewhat more full and large here. Observe here, I. In every age there have been men of corrupt minds, that have endeavoured to subvert the fundamental principles of revealed religion. As there are deists now, who call themselves free-thinkers, but are really false-thinkers; so there were Sadducees in our Saviour's time, who bantered the doctrine of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 20:39-47

The scribes were students in the law, and expositors of it to the people, men in reputation for wisdom and honour, but the generality of them were enemies to Christ and his gospel. Now here we have some of them attending him, and four things we have in these verses concerning them, which we had before:? I. We have them here commending the reply which Christ made to the Sadducees concerning the resurrection: Certain of the scribes said, Master, thou hast well said, Luke 20:39. Christ had the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 20:27-40

20:27-40 Some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that, if a man's married brother dies without leaving any children, his brother must take his wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died childless. The second and the third also took her; and in the same way the whole seven left no children and died. Later the wife died, too. Whose wife will she be at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:27

That is, "to Jesus", as the Persic version expresses it; and it was the same day, as Matthew says, on which the disciples of the Pharisees, and the Herodians, had been with him, putting the question about tribute to him: Matthew 22:16 which deny that there is any resurrection ; that is, of the dead; that there ever was any instance of it, or ever will be: this was the distinguishing tenet of that sect; see Acts 23:8 and they asked him , the following question, after they had put a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:28

Saying, master, Moses wrote unto us ,.... In Deuteronomy 25:5 where the substance of what follows is contained, though not in express words: if any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother ; the meaning of which is, that if a man died without issue, and left a wife behind him, his next brother, if unmarried, was to marry his wife, and the first child born of her, was to be reckoned the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:29

There were therefore seven brethren ,.... In the place where these Sadducees dwelt; or, however, that were known by them; at least they supposed such a case, and it might be fact: and the first took a wife, and died without children ; son or daughter, and so had none to keep up his name, and to possess his inheritance. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:30

And the second took her to wife ,.... As he was obliged by the above law, or pluck off the shoe: and he died childless : as his eldest brother before him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:31

And the third took her ,.... To wife, by virtue of the same law: and in like manner the seven also ; the other four, one after another, when all seven married her: and they left no children, and died ; or they died, leaving no children behind them. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:32

Last of all the woman died also. Having had no children by either of her seven husbands. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection ,.... At the time of the resurrection of the dead, in that state, supposing there will be such an one, which they denied; whose wife of them is she ? the first, or the last, or any of the intermediate ones? for seven had her to wife ; and she had no child by either of them; so that their claim seems to be alike; this they thought unanswerable, and sufficient to set aside the notion of a resurrection. read more

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