Luke 20:27
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New International Version (©2011)
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Jesus was approached by some Sadducees--religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead.

English Standard Version (©2001)
There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now there came to Him some of the Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection),

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned Him: "

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus

NET Bible (©2006)
Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But some of the Sadducees came, those who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Some Sadducees, who say that people will never come back to life, came to Jesus. They asked him,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

American King James Version
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

American Standard Version
And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him,

Darby Bible Translation
And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, coming up to him,

English Revised Version
And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they which say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees (who deny that there is any resurrection) and they asked him,

Weymouth New Testament
Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there is a Resurrection)

World English Bible
Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

Young's Literal Translation
And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:27-38 It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. What shall be the happy state of the inhabitants of that world, we cannot express or conceive,

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 27-40. - The scornful question of the Sadducees bearing on the doctrine of the resurrection, and the Lord's reply. Verses 27, 28. - Then came to him certain of the Saddducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. This is the only occasion related in the Gospels where our Lord comes in direct conflict with the Sadducees. They were a small but very wealthy and powerful sect. The high priests at this period and their families seem to have belonged generally to this party. They acknowledged as Divine the books of Moses, but refused to see in them any proof of the resurrection, or indeed of life after death. To the prophets and the other books they only attached subordinate importance. Supercilious worldliness, and a quiet indifference to all spiritual things, characterized them at this period. They come, comparatively speaking, little in contact with Jesus during his earthly ministry. While the Pharisee hated the Galilaean Master, the Sadducee professed to look on him rather with contempt. The question here seems to have been put with supercilious scorn. SS. Matthew and Mark preface the Lord's answer with a few words of grave rebuke, exposing the questioners' utter ignorance of the deep things involved in their query.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That is, "to Jesus", as the Persic version expresses it; and it was the same day, as Matthew says, on which the disciples of the Pharisees, and the Herodians, had been with him, putting the question about tribute to him: Matthew 22:16

which deny that there is any resurrection; that is, of the dead; that there ever was any instance of it, or ever will be: this was the distinguishing tenet of that sect; see Acts 23:8

and they asked him, the following question, after they had put a case to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27-34. no resurrection—"nor angel nor spirit" (Ac 23:8); the materialists of the day.

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Sadducees Question the Resurrection
27Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. 29There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children. …

Matthew 22:23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
Mark 12:18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
Acts 23:8 (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)