The Sadducees were a group which did not accept many of the beliefs held by the Pharisees. They confined their beliefs to the first five books of our Bible. Among the beliefs they rejected was that of life after death. Armed with this conviction, they approached Jesus with a hypothetical case which they felt could not be answered by him. A woman married a man but he died before they could have children. In order that her late husband, the eldest son in his family, would have heirs, she followed a law which said she had to marry her husband's brother. In the end, she married all seven brothers, all of whom died before a child could be conceived. The Sadducees' question to Jesus was that, if there is life after death, which of the seven men would be her real husband in the next life? For them, of course, there was no problem but, for Jesus and all those who believed in an after-life, they thought it created an insoluble situation. Jesus answers by saying that in the next life marriage will no longer exist. People will be in an eternal relationship with God. Second, Jesus quotes a text from the Bible which the Sadducees accept. In it God identifies himself as the God of the patriarchs. But God can only be God of those still existing. They had no comeback. In conclusion we might say that we do not bring people to Christ simply by beating them in arguments. The real way to bring people to Christ is by the compelling example of our words, our actions and our attitudes reflecting his love and tolerance.