Matthew 22:34–46
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a passage where the spiritual war, which had been simmering throughout Christ's ministry, comes to a full boil. This is not a polite seminar in a university faculty lounge. Jesus has just finished routing the Sadducees, the liberal, modernist wing of the Jewish establishment, leaving their theology in tatters over the question of the resurrection. And like any good pack of rivals, the Pharisees see an opportunity in the defeat of their theological opponents. They hear that the Sadducees have been silenced, and they gather themselves together. They believe they can succeed where the Sadducees failed. They will trap the Lord with their specialty, the Law. What we are about to witness is a master class in cutting through religious fog. They want to drag Him into their petty squabbles. He answers their question with such profound and devastating simplicity that it reorders their entire universe.