The
Sadducees want to hold Jesus accountable, Jesus responds by helping them
examine their own understanding of eternal life.
1.
Do you think
Jesus’ response helped to show the Sadducees that their rules were keeping them
from the real intent of the Law (ie God)?
Why or why not?
2.
How does Jesus
hold the Sadducees accountable in his response?
3.
What does
Christ's answer mean to you?
Luke 20:27-38
Some
Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him
a question, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies,
leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up
children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and
died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same
way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection,
therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her."
Jesus
said to them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are given in
marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the
resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they
cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being
children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses
himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of
the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."
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