Oct. 05, 2025

Last week we ended with the Sadducees asking Jesus the ridiculous question about the seven brothers all being the husband of the same woman. This week Jesus answers their question, and proves the resurrection from Scripture.

Luke Lesson 38 Study Questions

1.    Neither marry nor are given in marriage: First, Jesus reminded them that life in the _____________ is quite different from this life. It does not merely continue this world and its arrangements, but it is life of a completely _________ order.

2.    Nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection: Second, Jesus reminded us that life in heaven is _______ and shares some characteristics of the existence that _______ now experience.

3.    The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: Jesus demonstrated the reality of the resurrection using only the Torah; the five books of Moses, which were the only books the Sadducees accepted as authoritative. If Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not live on in resurrection, then God could not say that He __ the God of Abraham, and would instead say, “I ____ the God of Abraham.”

4.    How can they say that the Christ is the Son of David? Jesus tested their notion that they already knew all about the ________. He asked them to consider that they may not know everything about the ________, and may have something to learn.

5.    These will receive greater condemnation: The scribes represent a complete contrast to the picture of how a _________ should live – as a servant, as a child, as one carrying a cross. Jesus said we should notice what they do, as well as what they say – and especially that we should notice their ________.

6.    He saw also: Jesus sees us when we give. He notices how much we give, but is far more interested in the ______ and _______ and heart in giving than simply the amount.

7.    This poor widow has put in more than all: Jesus did not say that she put in more than any one of them. He said that she put in more than all of them – all of them put together. The others gave out of their ___________; she gave sacrificially, out of her ________.

8.    How it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations: The temple wasn’t just big, it was also beautiful. The Jewish historian Josephus said that the temple was covered on the outside with gold plates, that were so brilliant that when the sun shone on them, it was blinding to look at. Where there was no _____, there were blocks of ______ of such a pure white that from a distance, travelers thought there was snow on the temple mount.

9.    Teacher, but when will these things be? Both Matthew and Luke make it clear that Jesus spoke both of the coming ____________ of Jerusalem, and of the ultimate end of the age and His glorious ________. Prophetically, the two are connected, though separated by many centuries.

10.    Therefore do not go after them: Tragically, those who rejected Jesus when He came to them as Messiah ended up falling after false messiahs who led them into nothing but death and destruction. In rejecting the ______, they were vulnerable to greater __________.

11.    These things must come to pass first: “These things must happen because they are part of the _________ program of the End-time in general, and so are divinely ________; but they do not usher in the immediate end. The fall of Jerusalem and the events leading up to it were morally, though not chronologically, of an eschatological character.”