Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Jesus looked at them and said, 'You're completely missing the point because you don't really know what Scripture says, and you definitely don't understand how powerful God actually is.'
Sometimes we're wrong simply because we haven't done our homework on what God actually said and can do.
📚 Historical Context
In the context of Matthew 22, Jesus is responding to the Sadducees, a religious group in ancient Judaism that denied the resurrection of the dead and focused on the Torah while rejecting oral traditions. They presented a hypothetical scenario about marriage in the afterlife to test Jesus, but He corrected them by emphasizing their lack of understanding of both Scripture and God's power. This interaction took place during Jesus' final week in Jerusalem, amid increasing opposition from religious leaders.
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