The same day, the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus during Jesus teaching in the Temple and asked, Master, Moses said, If a man dies having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up children to carry on his brother’s name (Deuteronomy 25:5-10). What if there were seven brothers, and the first married a wife and died with no child, leaving his wife to his brother. The same happened with the second and the third all the way to the seventh. Last of all, the woman died too. In the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, because she was the wife of them all. Jesus answered, You’ve made a mistake not knowing the scriptures, or the power of God. In the resurrection, people don’t marry and aren’t given in marriage, but they’re like the Angels of God in Heaven. (The angels are heavenly and spiritual, not fleshly and have no need of spouses.) But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what God said, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (That means that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are living, which means there is a resurrection.)

The people heard this and they were astonished at Jesus’ doctrine. But when the Pharisees heard that He answered the Sadducees well, one of them who was a lawyer asked Jesus, testing Him, Master, what is the greatest commandment of all? Jesus said to him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. This is the first and most important commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. All the law and the prophets are fulfilled in these two commandments.

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. Why do you think they say that Christ is David’s son? David himself said in the book of Psalms by the power of the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool (Psalms 110:1). If David called him Lord, how can He be David’s son?

Then while Jesus was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said to His disciples, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greeting in the marketplace, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts, who devour widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. They will receive greater damnation.

Then ... During Jesus teaching in the Temple, Jesus looked up and noticed the people putting their gifts into the treasury, and many that were rich put in a lot. Then a poor widow came and threw in two mites, and Jesus called His disciples and said to them, I tell you honestly, that this poor widow has put in more than they all have. Compared to their riches, they’ve put in just a small portion to the offerings of God, but she of her poverty has put in all the living that she had.

Wouldn’t you have loved to be there for Jesus teaching in the Temple? To hear the emotion og Jesus teaching in the Temple that He spoke with and to see the heartfelt expressions as Jesus teaching in the Temple spoke words that would be engraved in your mind forever? Don’t forget to imagine that kind of fervor when you read the Word, because the Holy Spirit is in the words that you read and He wants them remain in your heart and become a part of you.