Mark 12:27

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

In Context

26And as concerning the dead that they rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

28And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

Romans 4:17(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

Hebrews 3:10Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways,

Matthew Henry on Mark 12:19-28

The Question of the Sadducees. 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the seven had her, and… Read the whole commentary →

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