November 10, Ordinary 32C (Luke 20:27–38)
Resurrection is where God is—across generations, across circumstances.
Those who say there is no resurrection have a question for Jesus about resurrection.
We can sense the deceit in the moment, a trap meant to pit the radical teacher against his own tradition. But the deceit gives way to a flurry of realities, the loudest being the commonality of tradition: Jesus’ questioners start from the same place he does. Both the teacher and his skeptical hearers revere the tradition, lauding the writings of Moses as sacred text.
They vary, however, in their interpretation of the tradition’s precepts. The question of the Sadducees sits strangely: If they do not believe in the circumstances into which they are inquiring, what, in fact, are they asking?
