The God of the Living: Christ’s Defense of the Resurrection (Matthew 22:23–33)

Reformed Thinking · Apr 17, 2026 · 27m · transcript

Deep Dive into The God of the Living: Christ’s Defense of the Resurrection (Matthew 22:23–33)In Matthew 22:23-33, Jesus faces a hostile confrontation in Jerusalem with the Sadducees, an influential and rationalistic Jewish sect that denied supernatural realities, including the resurrection. To mock the concept of life after death, the Sadducees construct an extreme hypothetical scenario based on the Old Testament law of Levirate marriage. They describe a woman who sequentially marries seven brothers as each dies childless, and they ask whose wife she would be in the resurrection. Their…