Luke 20:38
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
In Context
39Then some of the scribes responded, “Teacher, yoʋ have spoken well.”
Cross References
John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live.
Romans 6:10For the death that he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 14:7For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.
2 Corinthians 13:4For though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by the power of God. Now we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
Matthew Henry on Luke 20:28-39
The Cavil of the Sadducees. 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. 31 And the third took her; and in like… Read the whole commentary →