Mark 12:18
“There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,”
What does Mark 12:18 mean?
The Sadducees were a Jewish group who didn't believe in an afterlife or bodily resurrection, unlike the Pharisees and most other Jewish teachers of the time. They're approaching Jesus with a trick question, hoping to catch him in a logical contradiction or to embarrass him publicly. Their skepticism about the resurrection was one of their core beliefs, so this wasn't just idle curiosity, but a real point of disagreement they wanted to press. What happens next shows Jesus responding with both gentleness and deep wisdom about what resurrection actually means.