20:27–40 The third question put to Jesus concerns the teaching of the resurrection. The Sadducees (see note below), who do not believe in the resurrection, ask Jesus a rather ridiculous question, one designed to show the incompatability of the law of Moses and belief in the resurrection. The Sadducees allude to Deut. 25:5 and Gen. 38:8, where the laws of what would eventually be called “levirate marriage” are laid down. If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. The question of the Sadducees supposes that seven brothers successively married one woman. In the event of the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her? What the Sadducees entertain is that the resurrection could leave m…