and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.

I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)