18Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
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And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, …
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, …
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: …
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. …
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of spirits, any st…
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