Thematic Bible: Materialism, instances of


Thematic Bible



Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask "What is this prater wanting to make out?", while others would say "He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities." (This was because he was telling the Good News about Jesus and the Resurrection).

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they would hear what he had to say about that another time.

That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this:--

(For Sadducees say there is no such thing as a resurrection, and that there is neither angel nor spirit, while Pharisees believe in both.)