Luke 20:28-38

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

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 20:28

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:34

And Jesus answering, said unto them ,.... After he had observed that their error arose from ignorance of the Scriptures, and the power of God: the children of this world marry, and are given in marriage that is, such who live in this world, in the present mortal and imperfect state, being mortal men, and die, and leave their estates and possessions: these marry, and have wives given them in marriage; and it is very right, and fit, that so it should be, in order to keep up a succession of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 20:35

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world ,.... The world to come, eternal life and happiness; not by their own works and merits, but through the blood, sacrifice, and righteousness of the Messiah; and the resurrection from the dead ; that is, the first resurrection, the resurrection unto life, which only the dead in Christ will enjoy; otherwise all will be raised: but some to the resurrection of damnation: these neither marry, nor are given in marriage ; there... read more

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