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Lesson 6 · November 11, 1899

The Questions of the Sadducees, the Lawyers, and the Pharisees

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In the Temple at Jerusalem, A. D. 31.

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  1. 1.After the repulse of the Herodians, who came to Jesus? What was their view of the resurrection? .
  2. 2.What was the import of their question? . Side texts: .
  3. 3.Even though these Sadducees quoted Scripture to establish a proposition, with what lack did the Saviour charge them? Verse 29. Side texts: .
  4. 4.How did He prove His charge against them? . See note 1.
  5. 5.In what respect are subjects of the resurrection to be like the angels? . Side texts: .
  6. 6.After establishing the fact that no marriage is possible in the future world, how did Jesus show that a resurrection is certain? . See note 2. Side texts: ; ;
  7. 7.How did the multitude regard these words of Christ? .
  8. 8.When the Pharisees heard that the Sadducees had been silenced, what did they do? . Side texts: .
  9. 9.With what question did one of them, who was an expounder of the law, attempt to entangle Jesus? .
  10. 10.What did Christ say was the first great commandment? .
  11. 11.Was this statement in harmony with the Scriptures? . Side texts: .
  12. 12.What did He say of the second great commandment? . Side texts: .
  13. 13.What depends on these two great principles? Verse 40. See note 3.
  14. 14.What vital question did Christ ask the Pharisees who gathered together? How was it answered? Verses 41, 42.
  15. 15.What question did Jesus then ask, which silenced the haughty Pharisees? Verses 43-45. Side texts: ; .
  16. 16.What was the result of this interview? Verse 46.

Notes

Reading.

chapter 66; "Spirit of Prophecy," vol. 3, chapter 3.

1. It will be seen that the scripture quoted by the Sadducees had nothing to do with the conclusion they drew; so that theirs was a hasty and ill-advised deduction. They probably supposed that such conclusion naturally followed the command which they quoted from the Pentateuch, but it was not so; hence the Saviour's rebuke of their lack of knowledge, both of Scripture and the power of God.

2. Christ might easily have proved the resurrection from Job, Isaiah, David, and other prophets, but He chose to meet this question with the words of Moses, the only inspired writer that the Sadducees believed in. It was useless to cite authorities for them in which they had no faith, a lesson worth remembering in our day.

3. These two principles being eternal, and the whole law hanging on them, or being drawn out from them, must be just as eternal as that on which it hangs, or depends, for support.

Bible texts in this lesson

Matthew 22:23-46 · Mark 12:18-37 · Luke 20:27-44 · Matthew 22:23 · Matthew 22:24-28 · Deuteronomy 25:5 · John 20:9 · John 20:30 · Luke 20:36 · 1 John 3:2 · Matthew 22:31 · Matthew 22:32 · Exodus 3:3 · Exodus 3:16 · Acts 7:32 · Luke 20:37 · Luke 20:38 · Luke 20:33 · Luke 20:34 · Mark 12:28 · Mark 12:35 · Mark 12:36 · Mark 12:37 · Mark 12:38 · Deuteronomy 6:5-9 · Deuteronomy 10:12 · Luke 10:26 · Luke 10:27 · Matthew 22:39 · Leviticus 19:18 · Psalms 110:1 · Revelation 22:16

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