Mark 12:27

He is not God of dead people, but of living. You are greatly mistaken.”

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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

26“As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him saying – ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

28Then came up one of the teachers of the Law who had heard their discussions. Knowing that Jesus had answered them wisely, he asked him this question, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

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Cross References

Romans 4:17as scripture says – ‘I have made you the father of many nations.’) And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.

Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – “Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned 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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