Matthew 22:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ προσῆλθον αὐτῷ Σαδδουκαῖοι, οἵ λέγοντες μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν, καὶ ἐπηρώτησαν αὐτὸν,

Transliteration

In ekeinē the hēmera prosēlthon to him Saddoukaioi, those legontes not einai anastasin, and epērōtēsan him,

Grammar Details

• *ekeinē*: dative, feminine, singular - that
• *hēmera*: dative, feminine, singular - day
• *prosēlthon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they came to/approached
• *Saddoukaioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - Sadducees
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying
• *einai*: present active infinitive - to be/exist
• *anastasin*: accusative, feminine, singular - resurrection
• *epērōtēsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they questioned/asked

Word Meanings

• *ekeinē*: that/same
• *prosēlthon*: they came to/approached/came near
• *legontes*: saying/declaring/teaching
• *anastasin*: resurrection/rising up from death
• *epērōtēsan*: they questioned/asked/inquired of

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:7 : 7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Acts 4:1 : 1 ¶ And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• Acts 5:17 : 17 ¶ Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
• Mark 12:18-27 : 18 ¶ Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave [his] wife [behind him], and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. 23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. 24 And Jesus answering said unto them, ‹Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?› 25 ‹For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.› 26 ‹And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I› [am] ‹the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?› 27 ‹He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.›
• Luke 20:27-40 : 27 ¶ Then came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 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. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. 32 Last of all the woman died also. 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. 34 And Jesus answering said unto them, ‹The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:› 35 ‹But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:› 36 ‹Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.› 37 ‹Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.› 38 ‹For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.› 39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said. 40 And after that they durst not ask him any [question at all].
• Matt 16:6 : 6 Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.›
• Acts 23:6-8 : 6 ¶ But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men [and] brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. 7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
• 1 Cor 15:12-14 : 12 ¶ Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.
• 2 Tim 2:18 : 18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.