Mark 12:27

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite 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

26But concerning the dead that are raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him and said, 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?

28One of the scribes came and heard their discussion; he saw that Jesus answered them well. He asked him, “What commandment is the most important of all?”

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27If you cease to hear instruction, my son, 1 you will stray from the words of knowledge. 1

Romans 4:17as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Abraham was in the presence of him whom he trusted, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that do not exist into existence.

Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was displeased with that generation. 1 I said, 'They have always gone astray in their hearts. 1 They have not known 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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