Luke 20:20-47

Deeper II

Today’s passage is essentially a retelling of Matthew 22.

The second question was more convoluted of the two and the framers of that question have many offspring today. In this case a situation was invented for the sole purpose of trying to prove a legal point. These “seven brothers” who were married to one woman were an attempt to box God in to a corner. “If this then that! See how irrefutable my logic is?”

In the province of Phrygia there was a king named Gordias. When Gordias died he left an intricate knot tied by his son Midas. It was still there in the fourth century B.C. When Alexander the Great entered the province. It was prophesied that whoever could untie the Gordian Knot would become king of all Asia. Alexander could not find the ends to untie the knot so he simply took his sword and sliced it in two. Thus, the term “untying the Gordian Knot” passed in to popular legend for taking a seemingly complicated problem and solving it with a simple solution.

These Sadducees brought to Jesus a Gordian Knot they had created. How cute. Jesus completely destroyed it saying, “Those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels.” Next question.

Here is the deepest of the deep wisdom to be gained from this. We can make up all of the rules and puzzles and trick questions and develop all of the clever theories we want to, but when it gets right down to it - God can do whatever He wants to do. I like that.