Then came unto him the Sadducees
 The same day, immediately after he had silenced the Pharisees and Herodians: these were a set of men distinct from the former, in some of their sentiments, especially in their religions ones, and particularly in the following: 
 which say there is no resurrection:
 of the dead, in a literal sense, either general or particular; (See Gill on Matthew 22:23); 
 and they asked him, saying;
 as in the next verse.