Were the Sadducees being sarcastic in Matthew 22:28?

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Matthew 22:28 NLT

So tell us, whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For she was the wife of all seven of them!"

The Sadducees were well known that they did not believe in the resurrection of the dead yet the went on to ask Christ about the resurrection.

Matthew 22:23 NLT

That same day some Sadducees stepped forward—a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death. They posed this question:

Were the Sadducees being sarcastic or they wanted to trap Christ in the issues of the resurrection of the dead?