Mark 12:27

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. Therefore you are greatly mistaken.” 1 The First Commandment

English Majority Text (NT)

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

26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in connection with the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘ I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

28Then one of the scribes came, after he heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first commandment of all?”

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Cross References

Romans 4:17(just as it is written, “ I have appointed you a father of many nations”) before God, whom he believed, the One who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;

Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was indignant with that generation, 1 and said, ‘ They go astray in their heart, and they did not know My ways.’ 1

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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