No Resurrection?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

• Games

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,