Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Gospel of Luke)
我夜间的歌曲《路加福音》
Text: Luke 20: 27-33
THE SADDUCEES
1. Some facts about the Sadducees will help us understand the following text better.
2. The Sadducees were politically inclined.
a. They were more of a political group.
b. They worked closely with Rome.
c. They controlled the Temple trade.
d. They were the so-called “upper class”.
e. They were rich and powerful.
f. They were the majority in the Sanhedrin Council.
3. What the Sadducees did not believe.
a. They accepted only the first five books of Moses.
b. They rejected all the other books of the Scriptures.
c. They did not believe in angels or demons.
d. They did not believe in the hereafter.
THE PARABLE OF THE SADDUCEES
“Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, saying: ‘Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children. And the second took her as wife, and he died childless. Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.’”
Luke 20:27-33
1. The Sadducees deny that there is any resurrection Luke 20:27.
2. The old practice of a Levirate Marriage.
a. A man gets married.
b. If he dies without an heir.
c. His brother is supposed to marry the deceased brother’s widow (Latin… Levir, meaning husband’s brother).
d. If there is an offspring, it would be considered the child of the deceased brother.
e. There were legal means when this practice may be declined.
3. The story of the Sadducees.
a. A man marries and dies.
b. Seven brothers marry the same widow.
c. In the end, all die.
4. The question raised by the Sadducees.
a. If there is a Resurrection.
b. Whose wife would she be?
c. She has had seven husbands!
经文：路加福音 20：27-33
撒都该人
1. 拥有关于撒都该人的知识能够帮助我们更好地理解以下的经文
2. 撒都该人有着政治倾向
a. 他们是属于政治的组织
b. 他们与罗马政府密切地合作
c. 他们监管圣殿的商业
d. 他们属于“高等人士”
e. 他们拥有财富和权力
f. 他们在公会占有多数的席位
3. 撒都该人的否定：
a. 他们只接受摩西所写的前五本篇章
b. 他们拒绝经文里的其他篇章
c. 他们不相信天使和魔鬼的存在
d. 他们不相信来世
关于撒都该人的比喻
“撒都该人常说没有复活的事。有几个来问耶稣，说：“夫子，摩西为我们写着说：‘人若有妻无子就死了，他兄弟当娶他的妻，为哥哥生子立后。’ 有弟兄七人，第一个娶了妻，没有孩子死了。 第二个、第三个也娶过她。那七个人都娶过她，没有留下孩子就死了。后来，妇人也死了。这样，当复活的时候，她是哪一个的妻子呢？因为他们七个人都娶过她。”
《路加福音 20:27-33》