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Luke 20:27

LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 20:27 Sadducees. See notes on Matt. 3:7; 22:23. They were a priestly group. One view is that they claimed descent from Zadok, the high priest under David (1 Kings 1:26). who deny... a resurrection. This is the main issue in the following discussion.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    LUKE 20:27 oi` @avnti#le,gontej {C} On the one hand, the external attestation for the reading oi` le,gontej is very strong, including, as it does, good representatives of the Alexandrian and the West...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See this explained in the Matthew 22:15 notes, and Mark 12:13 notes....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 _ 1. His Authority Demanded and His Answer.(Luke 20:1)_ 2. Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. (Luke 20:9) 3. Question about Tribute to Caesar. (Luke 20:20) 4. The Question Concerning Resu...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE QUESTION OF THE RESURRECTION LIFE (Mark 12:18 *, Matthew 22:23 *). The first peculiarity in Lk.'s account is Luke 20:34_ a_, the contrast between people in this world and those deemed worthy to at...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    BY WHAT AUTHORITY? (Luke 20:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that, if a man's married brother dies without leaving any children, his brother m...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN CAME, &c. Compare Matthew 22:23.Mark 12:18. SADDUCEES. See App-120. DENY... RESURRECTION. say that there is no (App-105) resurrection (App-178.) This is the key to what follows....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    27-40. Discomfiture of the Sadducees. 27. _certain of the Sadducees_ Matthew 3:7. On the Sadducees see the Excursus on Jewish Sects. They were undeterred by the discomfiture of the Pharisees and Herod...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    DISCOMFITURE OF THE SADDUCEES...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΙΝΕΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΣΑΔΔΟΥΚΑΊΩΝ. Matthew 3:7. On the Sadducees see the Excursus on Jewish Sects. They were undeterred by the discomfiture of the Pharisees and Herodians, and perhaps their plot had been so arra...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 27. Then came to him certain of the Sadducees which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28. Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить, приближаться, ΆΝΤΙΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΑΝΤΙΛΈΓΩ (G582) высказываться против кого-л., противоречить, противостоять,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Resurrection and the Grave (Luke 20:27-40) 27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, 28and they asked him a question, saying, Teac...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Search For An Excuse Scripture_ Luke 20:19-47 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they percei...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    24 Two kinds of coins were in circulation, the Roman and the Jewish. The temple taxes had to be paid in the Jewish shekel, the Roman in the foreign currency. The fact that they had accepted the conque...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SADDUCEES AND THE RESURRECTION (Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18). See on Mt....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS INCIDENTS OF THE LAST WEEK 1-8. The authority of Jesus challenged (Matthew 21:23; Mark 11:27). See on Mt....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 20 THE QUESTION ABOUT JESUS’ AUTHORITY 20:1-8 V1 One day Jesus was in the *Temple. He was teaching the people and declaring the Good News. The chief...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (27-39) THEN CAME TO HIM CERTAIN OF THE SADDUCEES. — See Notes on Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18....

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their l...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The resurrection question. Sadducees speak_ (Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27). οἱ ἀντιλέγοντες in strict grammar ought to refer to τινες, but doubtless it is meant to refer to the whole party. It is...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GOD OF THE LIVING Luke 20:27-40 Here our Lord answers the materialism of His time. He speaks with the note of absolute certainty concerning the unseen, Hebrews 11:27. Its inhabitants do not die o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter records the remarkable happenings gathered around our Lord's entrance into the Temple. By a parable He revealed the awful sin and failure of the Hebrew nation, culminating in His own reje...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (4) Then came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, (4) The resurrection of the flesh is affirmed against the Sadducees....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE RESURRECTION Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40. “And certain ones of the Sadducees coming to Him, who deny that there is a resurrection, interrogated Him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    _The Question._ The Sadducees, starting from the Levirate law given by Moses (Deu 25:5), agreeably to a patriarchal usage (Genesis 38) which is still allowed by many Eastern peoples, seek to cover wi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die witho...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    It will be remarked here that, as He draws nigh to Jerusalem, the Lord weeps over the city. It is not now as in Matthew, where, while discoursing with the Jews, He points it out to them as that which...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    Ver. 27 THEN CAME TO HIM CERTAIN OF THE SADDUCEES,.... That is, "to Jesus", as the Persic version expresses it; and it was the same day, as Matthew says, on which the disciples of the Pharisees, and t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me? 24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then came to him certain of the Sadducees_ These verses are explained at large, on Matthew 22:23, and Mark 12:18. _The children of this world_ The inhabitants of earth; _marry and are given in marria...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Tribute to Cesar-the resurrection. Matthew 22:15-33....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN CAME TO HIM CERTAIN OF THE SADDUCEES, WHICH DENY THAT THERE IS ANY RESURRECTION; AND THEY ASKED HIM,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The question of the Sadducees:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    AUTHORITY:FROM HEAVEN OR OF MEN? (vs.1-8) The chief priests and scribes used every means they could to discredit the Lord Jesus among the people. While He was teaching and preaching in the temple, th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    27-38 It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of sp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ver. 27-38. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 22:23", and following verses to MATTHEW 22:32, SEE POOLE ON "MARK 12:18", and following verses to Mark

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV conduct which would be unfit even to an ordinary man! The Sadducees, who said there was no resurrection, in a discussion on that subject, had proposed to the Lord a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 20:27 Then G1161 some G5100 Sadducees G4523 who G3588 deny G483 (G5723) is G1511 (G5750) a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SADDUCEES AND THE RESURRECTION (20:27-40). Having made two attempts the Pharisees now withdrew for the time being in order to nurse their wounds. They were deeply chagrined, but unable to do anyth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,' The Pharisees having been defeated in their attempts to discredit Jesus, the Sadducees now approached Him...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 20:27-40. THE QUESTION OF THE SAD-DUCEES. See on Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    In this section Luke records the assault of the Sadducees respecting the resurrection (Luke 20:27-40); then omitting the lawyer's question, he tells of our Lord's unanswered question respecting _Chris...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THERE IS NO RESURRECTION (αναστασιν μη εινα). Accusative and infinitive with negative μη in indirect assertion. The Sadducees rally after the complete discomfiture of the Pharisees and Herodians. Th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the vineyard. Question of the tribute money. Answer to Sadducees about resurrection. Jesus questions Scribes. CHARACTERS: Jesus, priests, Scribes, Jo...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 20:2. _Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things._ A question after all his miracles which offered the foulest insult to God, and was the emanation of complot and of malice. See Matthew...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SOME SADDUCEES CAME TO JESUS. For notes on this question about Rising from Death, see Matthew 22:23-33....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There were, therefore, seven brethren_ THE WORLD TO COME I. THAT THERE IS ANOTHER WORLD. Our Lord calls it _that _world. It is evidently opposed to “this world” (Luke 20:34); “the children of this w...

  • The Gospels Compared

    RELIGIOUS LEADERS QUESTION JESUS ABOUT THE RESURRECTION MATTHEW 22:23-33; MARK 12:18-27; LUKE 20:27-40; MATTHEW 22:23 The s

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 20 VER. 36. _They are equal unto the angels._ So the Arabic, Syriac, Egyptian, Persian, and Ethiopic; equal in celibacy, immortality, glory. As therefore the angels do not marry nor generate,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 20:27. SADDUCEES.—Members of the aristocratic and wealthy class, which included the higher ranks of the priesthood. It is a popular error, based on a statement of Jerome’s, that...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 20:1 _Question of the priests and scribes as to the nature of the authority under which Jesus was acting._ LUKE 20:1, LUKE 20:2...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    We are in the final week of the life of Jesus. He is now in Jerusalem. This is the week in which pilgrims are coming from all over the world to celebrate the Feast of the Passover. He has made His tri...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:12; 2 Timothy 2:17; 2 Timothy 2:18; Acts 23:6; Ac

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Asked. See on Mark 12:18....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Matthew 22:23; Mark 12:18....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Our blessed Saviour having put the Pharisees and Herodians to silence in the foregoing verses, here the Sadducees encounter him. This sect denied the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of t...

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