Matthew 22:23

λέγοντες for οἱ λέγοντες, on the best authority—אBD (C is defective here), and many other uncials.

23. Σαδδουκαῖοι. See note ch. Matthew 3:7. This is the only direct contact of the Sadducees with Jesus.

λέγοντες. ‘Then came Sadducees saying,’ i.e. with their argument that, &c. For the omission of article before λέγοντες see Crit. Notes supra; its absence before Σαδδουκαῖοι implies that they did not come as a class. Cp. οἱ Φαρισαῖοι, Matthew 22:15.