Matthew 22:23-33 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,… Well, how is that? He did not say. He likened them to the angels, but did not tell us how the angels were. It was rather negative. He declared that one potential, universal part of the economy of human life, with all its incidents and concomitants, stopped at the grave. This is the part of man out of which multitudinous history, good and bad, is derived. But useful as it is, it ceases and does not go on into the other life; and it seems very natural, since man is a double being, born for this lower life, in transition and formation for a life to come, that a portion of the powers or faculties which fit him especially for this lower life, when they shall have performed their function, will, as it were, like the calyx of a flower, wither and fall back, and that into the other life we shall carry only those parts of our nature which are highest and noblest, and which have relation to the spiritual rather than to the physical. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,WEB: On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, |
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