Notes from Sadler's Commentary on Luke
Luke 20: 28 — 33
He had put to silence both the High Priest's emissaries and the Pharisees' disciples who had united with the Herodians; and they would prove Him by themselves, and hoped, of course, by discomfiture to show the hollowness of the popular belief in the existence of the unseen universe, particularly in the existence of souls after death; and, of course, if they could throw doubt upon the separate existence of the soul, much more upon the union of that soul to its own glorified and spiritualised body. They imagine an absurd and, humanly speaking, impossible case, of a woman who by the Levirate law had seven husbands, who all died before her and they demanded, "in the resurrection, whose wife should she be?" Having, as might be expected, only the lowest and grossest view of the condition of man after death, the Lord first answers them exposing their short-sighted and miserable materialism. They had no elevating hopes of the future dignity and glory of their own race. They could only imagine a future in which men should be under the same low conditions, and subject to the same gross and carnal desires as now.
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