and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
This discourse with the Sadducees we had before, just as it is here, only that the description Christ gives of the future state is somewhat more full and large here. Observe here, I. In every age there have been men of corrupt minds, that have endeavoured to subvert the fundamental principles of revealed religion.
Commenting on Luke 20:27-38
And the third took her,.... To wife, by virtue of the same law: and in like manner the seven also; the other four, one after another, when all seven married her: and they left no children, and died; or they died, leaving no children behind them.
ENTANGLING QUESTIONS ABOUT TRIBUTE AND THE RESURRECTION--THE REPLIES. (Luke 20:20-40) sent forth--after consulting (Mat 22:15) on the best plan. spies--"of the Pharisees and Herodians" (Mar 12:13). See Mar 3:6.
Commenting on Luke 20:20-40