Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
The Sadducees, who were the deists of that age, here attack our Lord Jesus, it should seem, not as the scribes, and Pharisees, and chief-priests, with any malicious design upon his person; they were not bigots and persecutors, but sceptics and infidels, and their design was upon his doctrine, to hinder the spreading of that: they denied that there was any resurrection, and world of...
Commenting on Mark 12:18-27
And as touching the dead, that they rise,.... For the proof of the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read in the book of Moses; that is, in the law of Moses; for though it was divided into five parts, it was but one book; just as the Psalms are called the Book of Psalms, Act 1:20, and the Prophets, the...