Luke 20:27

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

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WEBBE

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

BSB

Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.

KJV

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

ASV

And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection;

BBE

And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,

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Προσελθόντες Proselthontes Having approached G4334 δέ de then G1161 τινες tines some G5100 τῶν tōn of the G3588 Σαδδουκαίων Saddoukaiōn Sadducees G4523 οἱ hoi the ones G3588 ἀντιλέγοντες antilegontes denying G483 ἀνάστασιν anastasin a resurrection G386 μὴ mē not G3361 εἶναι einai being G1511 ἐπηρώτησαν epērōtēsan they questioned G1905 αὐτὸν auton Him G846

The early church

The heresy of the Sadducees not only denies the resurrection of the dead, but also believes the soul to die with the body. Watching then to entrap our Saviour in His words, they proposed a question just at the time when they observed Him teaching His disciples concerning the resurrection; as it follows, And they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If a brother, &c.
Origen of Alexandria · d. 253Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
There were two heresies among the Jews, one of the Pharisees, who boasted in the righteousness of their traditions, and hence they were called by the people, "separated;" the other of the Sadducees, whose name signified "righteous," claiming to themselves that which they were not. When the former went away, the latter came to tempt Him.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Now the Sadducees resting upon a weak foundation, did not believe in the doctrine of the resurrection. For imagining the future life in the resurrection to be carnal, they were justly misled, and hence reviling the doctrine of the resurrection as a thing impossible they invent the story, There were seven brothers, &c.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 27–38

It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happy state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive, 1Co 2:9. Those that are entered into the joy of their Lord, are entirely taken up therewith; when there is perfection of holiness there will be no occasion for preservatives from sin. And when God called himself the God of these patriarchs, he meant that he was a God all-sufficient to them, Ge 17:1, their exceeding great Reward, Ge 15:1. He never did that for them in this world, which answered the full extent of his undertaking; therefore there must be another life, in which he will do that for them, which will completely fulfil the promise.

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Deuteronomy 25:5Matthew 22:23–24Mark 12:18–19

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Jesus, The ChristResurrectionSadducees

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.