Greater Expectations

Through his three year ministry, Jesus had made a lot of enemies.
In this passage, yet another group is revealed to have quarrels
with Jesus' teaching: the Sadducees. They rejected the teaching of
resurrection and believed that the soul and body perish at death.
However, Jesus has taught multiple times about the resurrection at
the final day, and about his own resurrection following his brutal
death. The Sadducees try to use the Tanakh (The Law, the prophets
and Writings) to disprove the resurrection. Jesus' response is
quite simple: "you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of
God" (v. 24). What a crazy claim! Jesus just told the guys that had
memorized more scripture than most of our local congregations put
together that they don't know the Bible!