Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 22:28

28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

Mark thus repeats the same History, Ch. 12.18, 19, 20. &c. So doth Luke, Ch. 20.27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. Concerning the Sadduces, we have before spoken, they were a Sect amongst the Iews much differing from the Pharisees as may be seen, Acts 23.8. Amongst other Erroneous Tenets, they denied the Resurrection, as may be seen in the Text, as well as this; and (which indeed was their Fundamental Error) they denied Spirits, and consequently the immortality of the Soul in its separate Estate. Their design seemeth not so much to have been, to have drawn out a Discourse from our Saviour; which might have touched his Life, (which was the Pharisees de[illegible: 1 letter]ign) as to have exposed him, by bringing him to an absurdity. To this purpose they p[illegible: 1 letter]t a Case to our Saviour upon the Law, Deut. 25.5. where God had ordained, for the Preservation of the Inheritances, of the several Tribes and Families di[illegible: 1 letter]tinct, That if Brethren dwell together, and one of them died leaving no issue, the Wife of the dead should not M[illegible: 1 letter]rry unto a stranger, her Husbands Brother should go in unto her, and take her to him to W[illegible: 1 letter]fe, &c. Now they either knew of, or else supposed a Case of seven Brethren, succe[illegible: 1 letter]sively Marrying the same Woman; they desire to know, whose Wife of the seven this Woman should be in the Resurrection? Instead of D[illegible: 1 letter]scovering their acuteness, and putting our Saviour upon a Difficulty, they did but betray their own Ignorance, as to the state of the Resurrection.