13        Anthropromorphism. . . .

22:23-34

Sadducees re-marriage after death

 

22:23-33  The same day the Sadducees approached him.  Now the Sadducess say there is not to be a resurrection.  They questioned him saying “Teacher Moses said  "If any man dies not having children he shall take to wife the wife of his brother and will raise offspring in the name of his brother."  Now there were seven brothers amongst us.  And the first one, having married, died without any children.  So she became the wife of his brother.  But the second one died also and likewise also the third until the seven had died.  Last of all the woman

died.  In the resurrection then, of which of the

seven will she be wife for all of them had had her?"  On answering Jesus said to them.  "You err not knowing either the Scriptures or the power of God.  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but they are like the angels in heaven.  But concerning the resurrection of the dead.  Did you not read what was told to you by God saying  “I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?  He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”  And on hearing this the crowds were astounded at his teaching. But the Pharisees heard how he had silenced the Sadducees

 

14        Legalism. . . .

22:34-40

Lawyer tempting

 

22:34-40   When they (the Pharisees) were assembled together one of them, a lawyer, questioned him, tempting him.  He said “Teacher what commandment is the greatest in the law?”  He said to him.  "Thou shalt love

the Lord your God with your whole heart and

with all your soul and with all your understanding.'  This is the great and first commandment.  The second is like it.  'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.'  On these two commandments rests all the law and the prophets".

 

15        Narrowness

22:41-46

Christ the son of David?

 

22:41-46 When the Pharisees were assembled Jesus questioned them saying “What does the Christ seem to you?  Whose son is he?” They said to him “David’s” He says to them “How then does David in spirit call him Lord saying

“The Lord said to my Lord “Sit on the right of me until I put your enemies underneath your feet?”” If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”  Nobody was able to answer him a word nor dared anyone from that day to question him any more.

 


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