Albert Barnes on Matthew 22:23
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Matthew22:23
The same day came to him the Sadducees. For an account of the Sadducees, Mt 3:7.
No resurrection. The resurrection literally means the raising up the body to life after it is dead, Jn 11:24, 5:29, 1Cor 15:22. But the Sadducees not only denied this, but also a future state, and the separate existence of the soul after death, as well as the existence of angels and spirits, Acts 23:8. Both these doctrines have commonly stood or fallen together, and the answer of our Saviour respects both; though it more distinctly refers to the separate existence of the soul, and to a future state of rewards and punishments, than to the resurrection of the body.
(b) "The same day" Mk 12:18, Lk 20:27 (c) "which say" Acts 23:8
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