Mat 22:23-33 | PNT | STEP | The same day came to him the Sadducees . See PNT . They were materialists. Which say that there is no resurrection . They denied the immortality of the soul. See .

Matthew 22:23-33

The same day came to him the Sadducees.

See PNT Mt 3:7. They were materialists.

Which say that there is no resurrection. They denied the immortality of the soul. See Ac 23:8. Moses said. See De 25:5. Whose wife shall she be of the seven? They state a fictitious case that they suppose will make the doctrine of the resurrection ridiculous. Ye do err. "Not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God". Are as the angels of God. The physical relations of earthly marriage do not belong to spiritual beings. The saints when raised are like the angels. This does not deny personal intercourse or spiritual relationships, but the existence of fleshly ties. As touching the resurrection of the dead. The Sadducees doubted some of the prophetic books, but accepted Moses; hence, the Lord appeals to Moses to show that he taught future existence, or "the resurrection", which is the sense in which the latter phrase is used. I am the God of Abraham. See Ex 3:6. God does not say, "I was", but "I 'am' the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob". The present tense shows that he is still the God of the departed patriarchs, and that they are still in existence.

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Queen Victoria is not the queen of Bacon, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, but only of her living subjects. The Savior teaches that the soul is resurrected when it leaves the body, and that there is no unconscious state between death and the final resurrection of the body.