Albert Barnes Commentary Matthew 22:23

"On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him," — Matthew 22:23 (ASV)

The same day came to him the Sadducees. For an account of the Sadducees, see the notes on Matthew 3:7.

No resurrection. The resurrection literally means the raising up of the body to life after it is dead, John 11:24; John 5:29; 1 Corinthians 15:22.

But the Sadducees not only denied this, but also a future state, and the separate existence of the soul after death, as well as the existence of angels and spirits, Acts 23:8. Both these doctrines have commonly stood or fallen together, and the answer of our Saviour respects both; though it more distinctly refers to the separate existence of the soul, and to a future state of rewards and punishments, than to the resurrection of the body.