Luke chapter 20

vs 21

Labelling them 'spies' is quite nasty, really. Luke makes his opinion clear. Or at the very least the opinion of his eyewitness.

Flattery, they think, will get them everywhere. But also, the preamble to their question is part of the trap. They are reminding Jesus that he is supposed to follow God's truth impartially, even if what he says will make him unpopular. Of course, they haven't done their homework - they would know that Jesus has taught some really unpopular things during his ministry already, and is not afraid to do that.

vs 22

The trap being of course that if he says "It's right" he loses popularity with the fairly militant anti-Roman jews. If he says "It's wrong" they can use it as a reason to get him arrested.

vs 23

Jesus is smarter than them.

vs 24-25

The coin is Caesar's because it bears his image and inscription. Jesus says, therefore, that anything that bears the image and inscription of God should be given to God.

vs 26

Jesus foiled them so terribly well in one answer, that they couldn't think of another way to even try and trap him. That's pretty awesome.

vs 27

Luke reminds us of what the Sadducees believe, thankfully, because we'd probably have no idea otherwise.

vs 28

This is weird, but true. Now, for all those people who say that they follow the OT law, I bet you $1 million that they don't follow that one :P

vs 29-32

In these verses, the Sadducees draw up a crazy SitCom plot where seven husbands marry this woman, and none of them father a child with her, before dying, and she eventually dies (of exhaustion). Can I point out how useless verse 30 is? Interesting that in the KJV, there are a bunch of words in vs 30 that simply don't exist in the greek. They must be so tenuous that the NIV and NASB don't even list them as "some late manuscripts add"!