Matthew Henry on 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 resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, though they were plainly revealed in the Old Testament, and were articles of the Jewish faith. The Sadducees deny that there is any resurrection, any fut…
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no resurrection--"nor angel nor spirit" (Act 23:8); the materialists of the day.
Adam Clarke on Luke 20:29
There were therefore seven brethren - See on Mat 22:23-33 (note).
John Gill on 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.
John Calvin on Luke 20:27-40
Luke 20:27-40
Matthew 22:23-33
Mark 12:18-27
Luke 20:27-40
23. The same day came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, and interrogated him, 24. Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, not having a child, [64] his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. 25. Now there were amongst us seven brothers, and the first, having married a wife, died, and, having no seed, left his wife to his brother. 26. In like manner, the second, and the third, till the seventh. 27. And last of all the woman died also. 28. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. 29. And Jesus answering said to them, You err, not…
