Matthew 22:23
New International Version
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.

New Living Translation
That same day Jesus was approached by some Sadducees—religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. They posed this question:

English Standard Version
The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,

Berean Standard Bible
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.

Berean Literal Bible
On that day Sadducees, those saying there is no resurrection, came to Him, and they questioned Him,

King James Bible
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

New King James Version
The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

New American Standard Bible
On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him,

NASB 1995
On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him,

NASB 1977
On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Him and questioned Him,

Legacy Standard Bible
On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and asked Him a question,

Amplified Bible
On that day some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection [of the dead], came to Him and asked Him a question,

Christian Standard Bible
That same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to him and questioned him:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him:”

American Standard Version
On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That day the Sadducees approached, and they were saying to him, “There is no life for the dead”, and they asked him,

Contemporary English Version
The Sadducees did not believe people would rise to life after death. So that same day some of the Sadducees came to Jesus and said:

Douay-Rheims Bible
That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

English Revised Version
On that day there came to him Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On that day some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Jesus. They asked him,

Good News Translation
That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from death.

International Standard Version
That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him,

Literal Standard Version
In that day there came near to Him Sadducees who are saying there is not a resurrection, and they questioned Him, saying,

Majority Standard Bible
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.

New American Bible
On that day Sadducees approached him, saying that there is no resurrection. They put this question to him,

NET Bible
The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

New Revised Standard Version
The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying,

New Heart English Bible
On that day Sadducees came to him, the ones saying that there is no resurrection. And they asked him,

Webster's Bible Translation
The same day came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

Weymouth New Testament
On the same day a party of Sadducees came to Him, contending that there is no resurrection. And they put this case to Him.

World English Bible
On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

Young's Literal Translation
In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

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Context
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
22And when they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away. 23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:7
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Mark 12:18
Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him:

Luke 20:27
Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.

Acts 23:6
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial."

Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.


Treasury of Scripture

The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

same.

Mark 12:18
Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

Luke 20:27
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

the Sadducees.

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Acts 4:1
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

which.

1 Corinthians 15:12-14
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? …

2 Timothy 2:18
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

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Matthew 22
1. The parable of the marriage of the king's son.
9. The vocation of the Gentiles.
12. The punishment of him who lacked a wedding garment.
15. Tribute ought to be paid to Caesar.
23. Jesus confutes the Sadducees for the resurrection;
34. answers which is the first and great commandment;
41. and puzzles the Pharisees by a question about the Messiah.














(23-28) The Sadducees.--(See Note on Matthew 3:7.) These, we must remember, consisted largely of the upper class of the priesthood (Acts 5:17). The form of their attack implies that they looked on our Lord as teaching the doctrine of the resurrection. They rested their denial on the ground that they found no mention of it in the Law, which they recognised as the only rule of faith. The case which they put, as far as the principle involved was concerned, need not have gone beyond any case of re-marriage without issue, but the questioners pushed it to its extreme, as what seemed to them a reductio ad absurdum. Stress is laid on the childlessness of the woman in all the seven marriages in order to guard against the possible answer that she would be counted in the resurrection as the wife of him to whom she had borne issue.

Verses 23-33. - Third attack: The Sadducees and the resurrection. (Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40.) Verse 23 - The same day; on that day. This is still the Tuesday in the Holy Week. The Sadducees. There is no definite article here in the original. Which say; οἱ λὲγοντες. Many good manuscripts and some modern editors (Laehmann, Tregelles, Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort) read λέγοντες, "saying." The received reading historically describes the Sadducees' opinions; the other makes them come boldly stating their sentiments. Where authorities are pretty evenly balanced, we must decide the wording of a passage by other than literary considerations; and there can be no doubt that the reading which denotes the characteristic of the sect is more appropriate than that which represents them offensively parading their views as a preparation for the coming question. We have had notice of the Saddueees before (Matthew 3:7; Matthew 16:1). The popular account of their religious belief is given in Acts 23:8, "The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit." They were rationalists and sceptics, who denied many old-established truths, and scorned many prevalent observances. They acknowledged most of the Old Testament, though, curiously enough, they, like our modern neologians, stumbled at the supernatural upon which the Scriptures were built. Tradition and traditional interpretations found no favour with them. The future life of the soul they utterly repudiated, and the resurrection of the body, when it was brought before them, met with contemptuous ridicule. The claims and doctrine of Christ were, in their eyes, puerile and unworthy of philosophic consideration. At the same time, they recognized that the people were with him for the moment, and that it was expedient that his teaching, so utterly opposed to their own opinions, should be discredited and repressed. So they came forward asking an imaginary question, which, as they thought, would reduce to an absurdity the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the flesh. Doubtless they were members of the Sanhedrin, and it was at the instigation of this body that they proposed the presumed case of conscience.

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Greek
That
ἐκείνῃ (ekeinē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

[same]
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

day
ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

[the] Sadducees,
Σαδδουκαῖοι (Saddoukaioi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4523: Probably from Sadok; a Sadducaean, or follower of a certain heretical Israelite.

who say
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

there is
εἶναι (einai)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

no
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

resurrection,
ἀνάστασιν (anastasin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 386: A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.

came
προσῆλθον (prosēlthon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4334: From pros and erchomai; to approach, i.e. come near, visit, or worship, assent to.

to [Jesus]
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

questioned
ἐπηρώτησαν (epērōtēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1905: To interrogate, question, demand of. From epi and erotao; to ask for, i.e. Inquire, seek.

Him.
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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