Luke 20:27

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Luke 20:27

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

The sadducees

General references

Acts 23:8

Bible References

The sadducees

Then the Pharisees and the Sadducees came, with a captious design, and desired him to show them some miracle in the sky.

About that time the Sadducees, who say there is no future life, came and propos'd this question,

Then the Saducees, who deny the resurrection, came and asked him,

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadduces came upon them,

Then the high priest, and all that accompanied him, who were of the sect of the Sadducees, being filled with indignation,

But as Paul knew that one part of the Sanhedrim were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out, my brethren, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and I am now prosecuted for believing the resurrection of the dead."

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

and their doctrine will spread like the gangrene. Hymeneus and Philetus are such:

General references

for the Sadducees maintain, there is neither resurrection, nor angel, or spirit, whereas the Pharisees acknowledge both: the clamour was great,