10:25–37 The awe-filled moment shared by Jesus and the disciples is all too quickly interrupted: A lawyer—a professional “wise and intelligent” person (10:21)—intends to test Jesus (10:25). The test question is what one must do to inherit eternal life. One might surmise from the question that the lawyer is a Pharisee whose theology included belief in the resurrection of the dead. The test may have been to see whether Jesus shared that perspective, or rather was a Sadducee (the aristocratic party