Charles Spurgeon 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. There was no rest for Jesus. As soon as one set of enemies was driven away, another company marched up to attack Him. He had silenced the Pharisees and the Herodians; now there came to him the Sadducees, the broad Churchmen, the rationalists of our Savior’s day, who say that there is no resurrection. They rejected a great deal more of the teaching of the Scriptures than this one point of the resurrection, but this is specially mentioned here as it was the subject on which they hoped to entrap or confuse the Savior.

The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, yet they came to Christ to ask what would happen, in a certain contingency, in the resurrection. They evidently thought that they could state a case which would bring into contempt the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. They might have taken warning from the experience of the Pharisees and the Herodians, but doubtless they felt so sure of their own position that they expected to succeed though the others had so conspicuously failed.