If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 22. Last week we began a study of a series of new conflicts and exchanges between Jesus and the religious leaders of Israel. In each of those conflicts and exchanges He reveals His divine wisdom and goodness while He simultaneously exposes the evil of their hearts. In Matthew 22, verses 15 through 22, which we studied last week, Jesus faced and answered a question meant for entrapment put to Him by the Pharisees and Herodians. This week the Sadducees are the questioners. The pattern is the same though. They ask a question, Jesus answers, even while He diagnoses their hearts and then the crowd responds. So we turn then to Matthew chapter 22 beginning in verse 23. Let’s hear God’s holy word. Matthew 22:23-33 Our…