<p>22:31&nbsp;<em>But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read</em>- Of course they had, but the Lord is yet again making the point that we can read Scripture many times but not really read it as intended.</p><p><em>What was spoken to you by God, saying</em>- Mk. 12:26 records the Lord saying: &ldquo;&hellip;God spoke unto Moses, saying&rdquo;. Surely the Lord said something like &lsquo;He spoke unto Moses, unto you, saying&hellip;&rsquo;. What was spoken to Moses was spoken to them personally, just as the living word speaks to every generation. The Lord was equating each secular Jew with none less than Moses himself. This was unthinkable blasphemy in Judaistic thought, to see oneself as receiving God&rsquo;s words, having God reveal Himself directly to us, just as He did to Moses. God of course had wanted to reveal Himself like this to Israel, but they asked not to hear His voice directly, wanting Moses as a mediator. But the Lord says that now, through the medium of God&rsquo;s word, the voice of God comes directly to us too. In the new Israel and the new Judaism of the new covenant, in this sense we are each as Moses.</p><p>Luke adds: &ldquo;That the dead are raised even Moses showed&hellip;&rdquo;. Sadducees believed only in Moses&rsquo; writings, and denied the resurrection. The Lord takes that position and runs with it, instead of trying to assert the inspiration of the rest of the Old Testament.</p>