Luke 20:27-33
20:27 a Sadducees ... who say there is no resurrection from the dead: See profile for The Sadducees at end of chapter.20:28 b Moses gave us a law: A dead man’s brother would marry the widow to produce children who would maintain the dead man’s name and property (Deut 25:5-6 c; see also Gen 38:8-10 d; Ruth 4:1-12 e).
Summary for Luke 20:29-33: 20:29-33 f Well, suppose there were seven brothers: A similar story of a woman married to seven husbands appears in the Old Testament Apocrypha (Tobit 3:7-17; 6:10–8:18 g).
20:33 h whose wife will she be in the resurrection? The Sadducees used this hypothetical situation in an attempt to show that the idea of resurrection was absurd. This was probably a stock polemic that the Sadducees used in debating the Pharisees.
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