Here is a great example of a group that has let their desire to trap Jesus get the best of them. 

The Sadducees are a religious sect that claims not to believe in the resurrection (this is why they are sad-u-see) according to verse 18.  They go to Jesus, and for the sake of entrapment open themselves up to criticism.  They ask Jesus what happens to a wife of seven brothers in the resurrection time.  They are looking, at this point, for any technicality to snare Him with.

Jesus simply proves their ignorance.

How often has Jesus' gospel or Jesus' message left me in my ignorance?  I wonder how many of our debates Jesus would answer with a simple, "You have just missed the point."  Immediately the debate about predestination comes to mind.  What about baptism?  Evangelism tactics?  End times?

This is the essence of Jesus' final argument:  God is the God of the living, not the dead.

Do your debates and arguments and conflicts and thesis papers and prayers and hopes and walks and sermons and studies point to life?

The God of the living.