The Town

Through his three year ministry, Jesus had made a lot of enemies. In this passage, yet another group is revealed to have quarrels with Jesus' teaching: the Sadducees. They rejected the teaching of resurrection and believed that the soul and body perish at death. However, Jesus has taught multiple times about the resurrection at the final day, and about his own resurrection following his brutal death. The Sadducees try to use the Tanakh (The Law, the prophets and Writings) to disprove the resurrection. Jesus' response is quite simple: "you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God" (v. 24). What a crazy claim! Jesus just told the guys that had memorized more scripture than most of our local congregations put together that they don't know the Bible!