Matthew 22:23-46
Another set of disputers, the Sadducees, come to the Lord with a trivial question. They think by this story to demonstrate the absurdity of the resurrection. Before giving proofs of this in the Scriptures, the Lord Jesus applies Himself to the conscience of these men and shows them that they are discussing things without knowing the Scripture, on the uncertain and always faulty basis of their own ideas. That is what so many people do today, especially those attached to sects with false and harmful teachings.
Defeated on the ground of Scripture, the enemies of the truth return to the charge (vv. 34-40). They receive in reply a judicial summing-up of the whole of the law – which condemns them without appeal. Then, in His turn, the Lord puts a question to His interrogators, which silences them. Rejected now He who is at the same time the Son and the Lord of David is going to occupy a glorious place. And those who, one way or another, choose to remain His enemies will find themselves in the place that is reserved for them – the footstool (v. 44). It is always sad to see people so determined to have their own way that they refuse to bend before the very clearest of Bible teaching (2 Timothy 3:8).