The End?

Northwest Gospel Church - East Vancouver

Here we are yet again... the religious leaders are back at it, attempting to trap Jesus by asking an impossible question that seemingly has no satisfactory answer. This time it’s the Sadducees who bring the question, and it’s a question about marriage and the resurrection. The Sadducees came primarily from wealthy priestly families, and history tells us that they mostly looked to the first five books of the Old Testament as their Scripture, likely rejecting or ignoring the rest of the Old Testament. Because of this, they didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead. So it’s with this in mind that we look at Luke 20:27-40. The religious leaders have come to trap Jesus. If one were to follow Moses’ instruction in Deuteronomy 25 and marry his brother’s widow (and if this were to happen seven times to the unfortunate bride), whose wife would she be at the resurrection? Yet again, Jesus’ answer shuts them up... this time for good. “Teacher,” the scribes reply in verse 39, “you have spoken well.” And they no longer dared ask him any questions.