by Neil Silverberg | May 25, 2021
“But Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God…’ This is part of our Lord’s answer to Sadducees who tried to trap him in something he said during Passion Week. They were the political power in Jesus’ day who...
by Neil Silverberg | Apr 4, 2019
Matthew 22 contains a story of Jesus’ confrontation of the Sadducees, the theologically liberal branch of Judaism in his day (Matthew 22:23-33). The Sadducees sheared the Old Testament of its supernatural nature, denying such things as accounts of resurrections and...