Mark 12:18-27 – Marriage at the Resurrection
- After the Pharisees and Herodians fail the Sadducees have a pop at Jesus.
- What is very interesting here [as I’ve already taught in the Talmidim series] is not simply Jesus’ answer but how He answers.
- You could say a drash in the Torah was worth 3 in the Tanakh.
- Jesus uses a Drash when there were far better examples of P’shat.
- Here He gives his interpretation of Exodus 3:6 rather than more obvious answers found in Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2 and Job 19:26. Why?
- Because the Sadducees only saw the Pentateuch as absolutely authoritative. They only believed these first five books of Moses as binding.
- The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection, angels, immortality of the soul, the doctrine of reward and punishment and neither the authority of the rest of the Tanakh nor the validity of the oral law.
- So rather than use all the Tanakh, He instead points to what they know as true.
- Although the other passages He could have used were true; there was no point in using them. Unless, of course, all He was interested in was being right.
- I need to pray to love others enough to work at communicating things in a way they understand [or to grow their understanding],rather than just settling for being right.
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