{There come unto him Sadducees} (erchontai Saddoukaioi
pros auton). Dramatic present. The Pharisees and Herodians had
had their turn after the formal committee of the Sanhedrin had
been so completely routed. It was inevitable that they should
feel called upon to show their intellectual superiority to these
raw Pharisaic and Herodian theologians. See on 烘t 22:23-33| for
discussion of details. It was a good time to air their disbelief
in the resurrection at the expense of the Pharisees and to score
against Jesus where the Sanhedrin and then the Pharisees and
Herodians had failed so ignominiously.