Sunday Devotions: The God of the Living

Luke 20, Exodus 3

Today’s gospel reading comes at the end of a series of challenges to Jesus’ authority. After the chief priests and scribes fail to lure Jesus into blasphemy and sedition, the Sadducees try to trip him up with a question about Mosaic law. Since the widow of a man who dies without a son “shall not be married outside the family to a stranger” but instead r…