Bible Verses About The Sadducees

But when Yochanan saw many of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim coming to be immersed by him, he said to them, "You snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming punishment?

Then some P'rushim and Tz'dukim came to trap Yeshua by asking him to show them a miraculous sign from Heaven.

So when Yeshua said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves against the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim,"

How can you possibly think I was talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim!"

Then they understood -- they were to guard themselves not from yeast for bread but from the teaching of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim.

That same day, some Tz'dukim came to him. They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurrection, so they put to him a sh'eilah:

"Rabbi, Moshe said, `If a man dies childless, his brother must marry his widow and have children to preserve the man's family line.'

There were seven brothers. The first one married and then died; and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

The same thing happened to the second brother, and the third, and finally to all seven.

After them all, the woman died.

Now in the Resurrection -- of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all married her."

Yeshua answered them, "The reason you go astray is that you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God.

For in the Resurrection, neither men nor women will marry; rather, they will be like angels in heaven.

And as for whether the dead are resurrected, haven't you read what God said to you,

`I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya`akov'? He is God not of the dead but of the living!"

but when the P'rushim learned that he had silenced the Tz'dukim, they got together,

"Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line.

There were seven brothers. The first one took a wife, and when he died, he left no children.

Then the second one took her and died without leaving children, and the third likewise,

and none of the seven left children. Last of all, the woman also died.

In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife."

Yeshua said to them, "Isn't this the reason that you go astray? because you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God?

For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor women marry -- they are like angels in heaven.

And as for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya`akov'?

He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray!"