Reading for November 25th

Read Luke 20.27-21.4: These disputes with the Sadducees with support from the scribes (v. 39) anticipate divisions between the Sadducees and the Pharisees concerning the resurrection in Acts 23.6-10; 24.15-21; 26.4-8. In verses 27-33: The case is clearly intended to ridicule belief in the resurrection. In verse 28: The obligation to marry a brother's widow is called levirate marriage (Deut 25.5-10; Gen 38.8; Ruth 3-4). In verses 34-36 This is one of the more complete New Testament statements about the altered bodily state of resurrection (see 1 Cor 15.35-57). In verses 37-38: Jesus is making an interpretive argument for the resurrection on the basis of God's word from the burning bush in Ex 3.6. In verses 41-44: Jesus pursues another interpretive argument, now on Ps 110, The appeal to Ps 110 will be taken further as testimony to the resurrection in Acts 2.29-36. "Son of David" is a crucial royal title in Luke ( 1.27, 32, 69; 2.4, 11; 6.3; 18.38-39) and in Acts (2.25-36). In verses 35-47: Jesus responds to several attempts (19.47-20.40) to entrap him in the presence of the people with a prophetic oracle denouncing the scribes (see Mt 23). In 21.1-4: The widow example is again an example of faith (2.36-38; Acts 6.1-2), displaying a generosity from her poverty that warns the rich against false security (see 16.1-31). Comments or Questions..